The Litaniae maiores and minores in Rome, Francia and Anglo-Saxon England: terminology, texts and traditions
Joyce Hill
It has been noted that there are Frankish and Anglo-Saxon texts in which the three days before Ascension designated as Major Litanies, a practice generally regarded an inexplicable deviation from established norm of designating 25 April Litany Minor Litany. This article shows, however, this contrastive terminology was not use churches pre-Ascension litany – more firmly than Roman tradition were commonly Litaniae maiores authoritative contexts.
Early Medieval Europe