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Article: Palm Sunday prophets and processions and Eucharistic controversy.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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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 ...