@david_castleton Fascinating! & a great description of the #BoyBishop tradition too.
#Christmas 🎄 ☃️

For a change from our current leaders, shall we try a #BoyBishop?

Celebrating #OTD 6Dec the feast of #StNicholas & traditions explored in last year's thread:
🧵 https://h-net.social/@ClaireFromClare/111531472836477908

🎨 Stowe Breviary, painted in Norwich c.1322-25.

Claire Barnes (@[email protected])

6 Dec is the Feast of #StNicholas, patron saint of children. It was celebrated in medieval England with the appointment of a #BoyBishop, empowered to give orders & sermons & distribute largesse to the poor - a focus for festivities & frivolities, at Clare Castle as elsewhere. The #tradition was suppressed by Henry VIII, but survives... https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2021/01/customs-and-traditions-boy-bishop.html 🧵 1/4 #medieval #feast #LadyOfClare @[email protected] @[email protected]

H-Net
Bury St Edmunds Christmas token unearthed in Norfolk

National Trust archaeologists have unearthed a 600-year-old Christmas token near Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk...

Archaeology News Online Magazine
At Bury St Edmunds, Ely & Ipswich the #BoyBishop distributed coin-like tokens, probably exchangeable for food, sweets or alms. Thanks to metal detectors, many have been found in recent years: https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/bury-st-edmunds/news/why-worthless-coins-found-in-suffolk-are-now-treasured-9313690/
🧵 3/4 #medieval #archaeology #MetalDetecting #MetalDetector #MoyesHall #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk #Ely #Ipswich
Why ‘worthless’ coins found in Suffolk are now treasured

Historian Martyn Taylor explains how and why ‘Boy Bishops’ got to hand out special tokens to the poor.

Suffolk News
Chorister, 12, becomes a bishop – but only for 45 minutes

Isabel Moss dons cope, mitre and ring to lead Sunday service as part of a Salisbury Cathedral tradition

The Telegraph
6 Dec is the Feast of #StNicholas, patron saint of children. It was celebrated in medieval England with the appointment of a #BoyBishop, empowered to give orders & sermons & distribute largesse to the poor - a focus for festivities & frivolities, at Clare Castle as elsewhere. The #tradition was suppressed by Henry VIII, but survives... https://www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2021/01/customs-and-traditions-boy-bishop.html
🧵 1/4 #medieval #feast #LadyOfClare @medievodons @histodons
Customs and Traditions: The Boy Bishop

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