The Mediaeval Stage (Volume 2); Book Iii. Religious Drama. Book Iv. the Interlude. Appendices - Brossura

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903. Excerpt: ... the sacrilege1. The Elizabethan Injunctions of 1559, although they do not specifically name the sepulchre, doubtless led to its final disappearance2. In many parts of the continent it naturally lasted longer, but the term 'visiting sepulchres' seems in modern times to have been transferred to the devotion paid to the reserved host on Maundy Thursday 3. I now return to the Quern quaeritis in the second stage of its evolution, when it had ceased to be an Introit trope and had become attached to the ceremony of the sepulchre. Obviously it is not an essential part of that ceremony. The Depositio and Elevatio mutually presuppose each other and, together, are complete. For the dramatic performance, as described by St. Ethelwold, the clergy, having removed the cross at the beginning of Matins, revisited the empty sepulchre quite at the close of that service, after the third respond4, between which and the normal ending of Matins, the Te Deum, the Quern quaeritis was intercalated. The fact that the Maries bear censers instead of or in addition to the scriptural spices, suggests that this Visitatio grew out of a custom of censing the sepulchre at the end of Matins as well as of Evensong5. But the Visitatio could easily be omitted, and in fact it was omitted in many churches where the Depositio and Elevatio were in use. The Sarum books, for instance, do not in any way prescribe it. On the other hand, there were probably a few churches 1 Dixon, iv. 157; S. R. Maitland, (Feasey, 142), and pious legacies Essays on the Reformation (ed. begin to direct tombs 'whereas 1899), 186. the sepulchre was wonte to stande.' 2 Hardy and Gee, op. cit. 428. 3 Davidson, 140; Malleson and Art xxiii forbids 'monuments of Tuker, ii. 263, 267, 272. The... idolatry and superstition.' The ...

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