Travelling Festivals in Late Antiquity: How Christmas Came to the Greek East
This article argues that the liturgical tradition of celebrating Christmas on 25 December travelled from the Latin West to the Greek East at the behest of Theodosius I upon his arrival in Constantinople in AD 380. From there it made its way to Cappadocia, Pontus and Syrian Antioch by means of travel...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2024, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 427-443 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Byzantine Empire
/ Christmas
/ Liturgy
/ Tradition
/ Expansion of
/ Bishop
/ History 380-451
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| IxTheo Classification: | AF Geography of religion KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBK Europe (East) KBL Near East and North Africa RB Church office; congregation RC Liturgy |
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| Summary: | This article argues that the liturgical tradition of celebrating Christmas on 25 December travelled from the Latin West to the Greek East at the behest of Theodosius I upon his arrival in Constantinople in AD 380. From there it made its way to Cappadocia, Pontus and Syrian Antioch by means of travelling clerics who belonged to a pro-Nicene network. The essay also makes the larger methodological point that in late antiquity liturgical traditions did not travel of their own accord; rather, they were often carried by networks of travelling bishops and ‘radiated out’ from major sees to minor ones. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S002204692300009X |