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Thank you John. Interesting stuff. I'll be filing this exchange for future 
further investigation!


>From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious   
>            culture <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Archaeologists and the Liturgy
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:33:32 +0100
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Jon Cannon wrote:
>>
>>That's indeed possible... the main problem I can see is that not all
>>the monastic cathedrals followed Lanfranc. Winchester didn't; perhaps
>>Worcester didn't either (?).
>
>As far as the Palm Sunday procession is concerned, Winchester follows 
>Lanfranc to the letter.
>
>>While some secular cathedrals - Old Sarum being the most celebrated - 
>>completely overhauled what (in this case) was presumably previously a 
>>'classic' Regularis liturgy, given that Sherborne was monasticised in the 
>>Athelwold/Dunstan/Oswald 'wave' of monastic reform.
>
>Well, no.  The Sherborne liturgy would have been taken to Old Sarum, but 
>Osmund then completely replaced the monks by secular canons, and seems to 
>have taken the liturgy pretty comprehensively from Normandy (most likely 
>Rouen). So it is a bit of a puzzle that the Palm Sunday procession is 
>closer to the Regularis Concordia form.
>
>John Briggs
>
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