medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I think we can find the six hours in Honorius Augustodunensis de imagine mundi
too...
D.H.
Tom Izbicki wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Two ideas come to mind:
>
> 1. Search the passage on the Darthmouth Dante Project database to fiind
> what the commentators said about it.
>
> 2. Look at material on the book of hours (e.g., R.S. Weick's Time
> Sanctified). The hooking story cycles to the liturgical hours (Prime, Sext
> etc.) is common in the illustration of books of hours. Thus the reference
> might purely be to time of day for particular events, calculated in these
> terms, rather than a mere 6 hours in Paradise.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> At 07:25 PM 11/28/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> >In Dante's Paradisio, he asks Adam about this very question. Adam
> >replies that he was created at dawn and was expelled at the sixth hour
> >(noon). My students are always amazed to discover how short a time it
> >took Adam to sin! I can't give you an exact citation because I don't
> >have the book here. And I don't believe there is any explanation in
> >Dante beyond the bare statement. However, I'll take a look at footnotes
> >in the morning to see if there is any attribution to the origins of this
> >story.
> >
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