medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Diana Wright wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Great questions, & I want to piggy-back on these. I 'learned" in
>graduate school that traditionally "all" churches crossed right-to-left,
>as the Orthodox do now, but that at the Lateran Council of 1215, it was
>changed in the West to left-to-right as part of the process of
>differentiation. Is this remotely accurate?
>
>DW
On a quick skim through the documents of the council I don't see anything
relevant. The decree on the Orthodox at Lateran IV demanded the Orthodox
Churches return to Roman obedience, rather than trying to emphasise
differences, so I rather doubt the accuracy of this idea.
Gordon
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