Am I incorrect in assuming, then, that a bull might have been posted on, say,
the doors of a cathedral? or read (summarized?) to a congregation by a bishop?
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In a message dated 11/14/00 10:04:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Dear George and others interested in the dissemination of papal bulls --
>
> As far as I understand from the breviaries I've tracked down, Boniface's
> canonization bull for Saint Louis was used, it seems, only in mendicant
> volumes made in Italy. It is the exception rather than the rule for
> Louis' feast day. In the overwhelming majority of cases another text was
> used that was probably written in Paris quite possibly at the royal
> court. One might, I suppose, posit two different centers of dissemination
> -- the curia and the french royal court -- and thus the readings which
> make it into breviaries might reflect geographical and/or political
> proximity to either center. As per Stan Metheny's suggestion to me, in
> a private communication on this subject, the very adoption of the
> feast of such a politicized saint was in many instance politically
> loaded. Just a hypothesis. But I'd still like to know how it is that say,
> friar x at Santa Maria Novella in Florence (to take one instance) got a
> hold of this text, whether it was from another breviary or whether it was
> from the bull itself. Towit, I might add that with respect to whether the
> bull was composed or understood as a hagiographical vita, in 1477 Boninus
> Mombritus includes it as his vita for Louis in his printed Vita
> Sanctorum. Seemed vita-enough to him, at least by the end of the 14th
> century.
>
> thanks for your interest George. Do you really want a conference on this?
> celia
>
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