Portents and events at Christ's birth
Comments on Vercelli v and vi and the Old English Martyrology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11653148 |
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| Authors | Jonathan Cross (University of Liverpool, corresponding author), J E Cross |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 209-220 |
| Publication date | 1973-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anglo-Saxon England (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-6751 • E-ISSN: 1474-0532 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0263675100000430 |
| OpenAlex | W2115303017 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Many curious traditions are gathered by medieval man to magnify the birth of Christ. Homilies and tracts transmitted the stories of the anonymous apocrypha but this present investigation uncovers well-known names and a different tradition. For the theme in Vercelli homilies v and vi Rudolph Willard blazed the trail when he drew attention to De Divinis Officiis Liber (wrongly attributed to Alcuin) and also to a sequence in Rome, Vatican Library, Reg. Cat. 49, which is now named Catéchèses Celtiques . The historical information in both these Latin texts, however, clearly derives from Orosius‘s Historiarum adversum Paganos Libri VII
Apocrypha · Art · Literature · Theme (computing · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Highly cited | No |
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