medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Thanks, Stan. Your explanation makes perfect sense of what I saw in my browse through the AAS, especially for 20th-C documents. It would be interesting to know how far back the chancery started using modern dating for routine documents.
it depends. According to Rabikauskas the Chancery was ordered to use
this dating for formal papal letters with a lead bull under Pius X in
the early 20th century. However, for brevia, the modern dating (.th day
of month) was used from the beginning of this form of papal letter,
around 1400.
Best, Herwig
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