The Mass Pericopes for Saint Arnulf’s Day from the Drogo Sacramentary
Corey M. Nason
The Drogo Sacramentary (Paris, Bibl. Nat. lat. ms. 9428) contains a set of Mass pericopes for the feast day celebration St. Arnulf Metz. These prayers are accompanied by historiated initial D depicting scenes from life Saint. Together illumination and evidence specific liturgy composed to celebrate Arnulf’s day. appear be earliest unique relating Arnulf. Paradoxically, this development occurred at same time as imperial legislation Charlemagne that suppressed many local saints pronouncing them false martyrs unknown saints. prevalent explanation, exemplified in writing Wallace-Hadrill, popularity cult ninth century suggests, least part, it arose result his association with Carolingian dynasty. techniques textual historical criticism used discussion follows establish where possible wh...
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