Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy<sup>*</sup>
Mary C. Erler
In the Fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as part of their Palm Sunday liturgical celebration, various London parishes purchased or rented costumes, wigs, props for prophets, paid to build scaffolds them stand on (“pageanttes“). Six other cities too had prophets between 1498 1559 it is perhaps significant that in all these places a substantial tradition religious dissent existed. It London, however, such celebrations are first recorded most numerous.
Renaissance Quarterly