medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
some years ago at the 'zoo Yaroslav Folda gave a very interesting presentation
on liturgical processions in crusader Jerusalem.
my dim memory is that he mentioned someone who was working on the liturgy of
the Latin Kingdom --and of L.K. Jerusalem in particular.
i assume that he was referring to Christina Dondi, whose work Paul notes
below.
being very close to infinitely Liturgically Challenged myself, while i'm not
surprised that some feast which was particularly significant for a particular
church would receive special attention at that church (after all, this was the
universal practice for the celebration of site-specific saints and, e.g., for
places which had "replications" of holy sites, etc., was it not?), i do find
it curious that the *name* of the feast would be "changed" or at least
referred to by a term which was not otherwise common --i'm assuming that the
"Sunday before Advent" was referred to by another name, rather than
"Resurrection" Sunday (say, why wouldn't that be a bit closer to Easter??).
of course, Raymond's "officium de Resurrectione" wasn't necessarily the
special, once-a-year "Solemn Commemoration" which Paul mentions, was it?
could have simply been one of the daily commemorations, could it not?
esp. since whatever Raymond witnessed apparently took place on 15 July.
(i'm in *Way* over my head, here)
in any event, it looks like Dondi's study is the place to start, though
Jaroslav might be helpful as well.
c
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Received: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:53:03 AM EDT
From: Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Office of the Resurrection - for the Liturgical Experts
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Cecilia, I'm not sure I would agree with the learned John Wickstrom on this
one. The crusader clergy were intensely conscious that the Holy Sepulchre was
the place of the Resurrection, witnessed by the fact that the usage that they
develop there after 1099 has a commemoration of the Resurrection every day
through the year, and an additional Solemn Commemoration of the Resurrection
on the last Sunday of the year (i.e., the Sunday before Advent). Also for them
the recovery of Jerusalem was an epochal event. I suspect they would have used
the most solemn Resurrection office available to them, i.e., the Easter
office, rather than that of the Sunday occurring.
> Admittedly, this is a guess, but it seems more likely to me.
>
> Is there anything that addresses your question in Cristina Dondi, *The
Liturgy of the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: A Study
and a Catalogue of the Manuscript Sources*, Turnhout: Brepols, 2004? -- Paul
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