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Palm Sunday Prophets and Processions and Eucharistic Controversy*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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

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Research Article
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , Spring 1995 , pp. 58 - 81
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1995

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