medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>From: "Jones, Dr G.R." <[log in to unmask]>
>Two questions from a Bear-of-Little-Brain who would like to understand
>these things better...
Totally irrelevant: who is "Bear-of-Little Brain"?
>1. Is it conceivable that these dates had no connection originally with the
>appropriated solar cycle - and that one or another or both (taking July 1
>and 2 to be a doublet) predates the assignment of the nativities of Jesus
>and John to the solstices?
>
>2. Since the protagonists in the Visitation episode are Mary and John the
>Baptist's mother, is it further conceivable that the Visitation feast has
>some relationship to an earlier focus on Mary or John as much as that on
>the child in Mary's womb?
OK, these ideas didn't come out of nowhere.;) What evidence suggests these
possibilities to you?
Francine Nicholson
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