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Feasts cross the altar rail late
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Claim (verbatim)
Southern Italy and Sicily housed Greek-rite monasteries inside a Latin-ruled church for centuries. New Latin feasts kept being created — and the conjecture is that they seeped into Italo-Greek service books on a stable clock: each Latin-origin observance appears in Greek liturgical manuscripts of the region with a lag of roughly two to four generations behind local Latin books, and, crucially, the feasts arrive in the same order they arrived in the Latin calendar, preserving sequence while delaying it. Greek communities adopted their neighbors' devotions only after those devotions had become the unremarkable furniture of the local religious landscape. If it holds, the lag length is a direct thermometer of inter-rite boundary strength, comparable across places and centuries, and calendar contents can date and localize Italo-Greek books with new precision.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause: for datable Latin-origin feasts attested in Italo-Greek liturgical manuscripts, the adoption order matches the Latin adoption order (rank correlation near 1), with individual lags falling predominantly in the 50-150 year band. Secondary: lags shorten after the Norman consolidation and lengthen again after 1300.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
Arranz's edition of the Typikon of the Monastery of the Saviour at Messina with Rocchi's catalogue of the Grottaferrata manuscripts (Codices Cryptenses).
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
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Latinization of Italo-Greek liturgy is documented at the level of centuries-long accretion (Grottaferrata's absorbed Latin elements; imposed Latin observances), but the ordered-lag clock — Latin feasts entering Greek books in Latin adoption order with 50-150 year lags as a boundary thermometer — is un-run.
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