medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
A long-established Catholic university or seminary might have books on the
rituals of the Holy See describing post-medieval rites.
Tom Izbicki
At 09:11 AM 3/30/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>What an interesting story about the hammer. As far as I know, and the
>accounts I've read, it was used on Pope John Paul I, yet I haven't seen any
>references to it for Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503) and earlier.
>
>But alas, that's the problem with being an independent scholar...where to go
>to find information you need without the backing of a university or a
>professor to show you how it's done.
>
>I WILL find out someday though...somehow....
>
>Wendy Reardon
>
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>From: "Elizabeth McLachlan" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 7:16 AM
>Subject: Re: [M-R] The Death Hammer
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>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> > An interesting sidelight: Alexander Stille, in his account of the
> > 'defenestration' of Leonard Boyle as Prefect of the Vatican Library
> > ("Library Privileges", The New Yorker, Sept. 28, 1998), frelates:
> > "But Father Boyle's puckish humor sometimes got the better of him. He
> > told one licensee that a silver hammer with which the Pope breaks the
> > seal on a door at St. Peter's each jubilee year was actually used to tap
> > an ailing Pope's body to tell whether he was dead or alive. The
> > licensee, who was Jewish, went around repeating the story until [Elaine]
> > Peconi [the California businesswoman who founded Cortile del Bevedere,
> > the company producing gift shop items which got Boyle into such trouble]
> > told him that Father Boyle had been joking."
> > Has the joke entered the mainstream of history? or was he in fact not
> > joking at all?
> > Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, Art History, Rutgers University
> >
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