medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Anglo-Catholics (such as the Alcuin Club) tend to be caricatured as
being obsessed with riddel-posts - so Dendy may be conforming to type.
Ruichard W, Pfaff, in the "Introduction: The Study of Medieval Liturgy"
to his "Liturgical Calendars, Saints, and Services in Medieval England"
(1998) writes:
"But it should be easy enough to distinguish the kinds of questions that
exercised the 'liturgiologists' a hundred years or so ago - for example,
is blue the 'authentic' colour for Advent, should a proper 'English'
altar have riddell posts and curtains - from the sorts of investigations
pursued in the present volume."
John Briggs
On 03/09/2011 17:23, Revd Gordon Plumb wrote:
>
> Riddels - curtains hanging at the side of an altar; hence the posts
> supporting them are known as riddel-posts.
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