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Subject: [M-R] presentation of the
Virgin
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
and culture
I dimly recall reading in Karl Young's Drama of
the Medieval Church that the office of the Presentation of the Virgin was
introduced in the later fourteenth century to the Western liturgy de
Philippe de Mezieres, who had encountered it in 'the East'. Young
publishes the earliest known version of the liturgical drama/dramatised
liturgy, and I think he says that it was first staged in Avignon (1485) and
shortly after in Venice (or maybe vice versa). It wouldn't be surprising
to find earlier versions in painting (egs by Taddeo Gaddi, Guisto de Menabuoi,
the late-13thC Magdalene master spring to mind) since the story was in
circulation in the texts others have mentioned well before the event it
described became a
feast.
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