Liturgical traditions for Palm Sunday and their dissemination in Old English prose
This thesis examinesthe dissemination of liturgical traditions for Palm Sundayin seven Old l!hglish homilies: Blickling HomilyVI and its variant, Blickling HomilyVIa; &l.fric's In DominicaPalmarum from the First Series of the Catholic Homilies, his SecondSeries, De Passione Domini,and its variant found in MS.Cotton Tiberius A. iii; together with two anonymousPassion Story homilies, Dominicain Ramis Palmarumand De Passione Domini. These homilies form a group on the basis of their connections to PalmSunday, and include examplesof anonymoushomilies (both before and after the Benedictine Reform)as well as homilies by Jafric. The intention is to provide contexts for these homilies based on their contents and sources, together with their relationship with the li turgical traditions for the day. To this end, Chapter I examines the evidence for liturgical traditions associated with Palm Sun~ in the early Medievalperiod, and identifies the liturgical pericopes. Idturgical lections are comparedwith the lections used by latin patristic writers to establish any divergence betweenthe two traditions. Concentration on the pericope helps to define a probable area of patristic material that Old English homiletic writers were
Lees, C. A.
Philosophy
Liturgical traditions for Palm Sunday and their dissemination in Old English prose. This thesis examinesthe dissemination of liturgical traditions for Palm Sundayin seven Old l!hglish homilies: Blickling HomilyVI and its variant, Blickling HomilyVIa; &l.fric's In DominicaPalmarum from the First Series of the Catholic Homilies, his SecondSeries, De Passione Domini,and its variant found in MS.Cotton Tiberius A. iii; together with two anonymousPassion Story homilies, Dominicain Ramis Palmarumand De Passione Domini. These homilies form a group on the basis of their connections to PalmSunday, and include examplesof anonymoushomilies (both before and after the Benedictine Reform)as well as homilies by Jafric. The intention is to provide contexts for these homilies based on their contents and sources, together with their relationship with the li turgical traditions for the day. To this end, Chapter I examines the evidence for liturgical traditions associated with Palm Sun~ in the early Medievalperiod, and identifies the liturgical pericopes. Idturgical lections are comparedwith the lections used by latin patristic writers to establish any divergence betweenthe two traditions. Concentration on the pericope helps to define a probable area of patristic material that Old English homiletic writers were
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