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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture John Dillon wrote: > On Friday, August 4, 2006, at 5:16 pm, John Briggs wrote: >> Jim Bugslag wrote: >>> >>> There is a good chapter on the feast of the Transfiguration in R.W. >>> Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England, pp. 12-39. >>> Calixtus's official promulgation of the feast in, as Pfaff says, >>> 1457 only formalized long-standing custom. The eastern church >>> celebrated the Transfiguration on or around 6 Aug. from the early >>> Middle Ages, perhaps as early as the 4th century. >> >> The memo doesn't seem to have reached Hereford :-) > > Possibly it got stuck at Naples, whose early ninth-century Marble > Calendar shows that by then the Transfiguration was being celebrated > there on 6. August. Well, no - this is the 1457 memo, which reached Salisbury in 1487, but hadn't made it to Hereford by 1502. John Briggs ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html