PART III

THE MATERIAL UPON WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR IS BASED

1. THE DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN GENERAL 342

2. THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN CALENDARS 347

3. THE ARIAN CALENDAR OF THE FOURTH CENTURY 352

4. THE SO-CALLED MARTYROLOGIUM HIERONYMIANUM 363

5. THE LECTIONARY AND MARTYROLOGY OF SILOS 378

6. EGYPTIAN (COPTIC) CALENDARS AND SYNAXARIA 381

7. THE MENOLOGY OF CONSTANTINOPLE 387

8. THE MENOLOGY OF THE EMPEROR BASIL II., AND THE SYRIAN LECTIONARY OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY 390

9. THE KALENDARIUM MARMOREUM OF NAPLES 394

10. WESTERN AUTHORITIES FROM THE SIXTH TO THE EIGHTH CENTURIES 396

11. THE MARTYROLOGIES OF BEDE, FLORUS, WANDELBERT, AND ŒNGUS 401

12. THE MARTYROLOGIES OF ADO, USUARDUS, RABANUS MAURUS, AND NOTKER BALBULUS 405

13. IMPORTANT CALENDARS FROM THE EIGHTH TO THE ELEVENTH CENTURIES 410

CONCLUSION 419

APPENDIX

I. CLASSIFICATION OF FEASTS IN THE ROMAN CALENDAR 421

II. ON SOME LISTS OF FESTIVALS 421

III. THE FESTIVALS OF OBLIGATION AS OBSERVED IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES 423

IV. LITURGICAL VESTMENTS 428

V. THE WORD MASS AS A NAME FOR THE SACRIFICE OF THE ALTAR 430

VI. ON THE DATE FOR CHRISTMAS IN HIPPOLYTUS 437

VII. CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND DURING THE COMMONWEALTH 439

VIII. EXCURSUS ON THE THREE HOLY KINGS 441

IX. THE GREEK ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR 442

X. ENGLISH WRITERS AND THE FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 445

XI. EXCURSUS ON THE SO-CALLED TYPICA 447

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 449

INDEX 457

HEORTOLOGY