Medieval panorama : the English scene from conquest to Reformation / by G.G. Coulton.

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1947
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Credit: Medieval panorama : the English scene from conquest to Reformation / by G.G. Coulton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TEXT-FIGURES Full descriptions are given here of the subjects and sources of these illustrations Condemnation of Honorius I page 32 From Camb. Univ. MS. Mm. 5. 21. f. 328, written in 1489. Portion of one of the lessons for the Feast of St Leo II (June 28th). It describes, in the last four lines here, how he solemnly approved the decrees of the Sixth General Council (Constantinople,678), “in which Synod condemnation was pronounced upon Cyrus, Sergius, Honorius, Pyrrhus, Paul and Peter, with Macarius and his disciple Stephen; also upon Polychronius, a modem* Simon; all of whom asserted or preached one will and operation in the Lord Jesus Christ, or who in future should preach or defend that doctrine” [of Monotheletism]. The post-Reformation Breviary, revised by the Council of Trent, gives only “ Cyrus, Sergius and Pyrrhus were condemned for preaching one only will and operation in Christ”, and there breaks off. * Here this present facsimile breaks off. This whole account in the Breviary is transcribed from the official Liber Diurnus of the ancient Roman Chancery. Mummers and Minstrels page 97 From J. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes (1810), plate xvi. (Fourteenth century.) Gratian’s Inspiration page 125 From the folio edition of Gratian’s Decretum by Francoys Fradin [1510]. The monk of Bologna who, shortly before 1150, compiled that collection of decrees and decretals which, until the present century, formed the first volume of the Corpus Juris Canonici. This frontispiece to one of the finest early printed editions shows him writing at the dictation (spiritually speaking) of the Great Cloud of Witnesses—Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Fathers of the Church assembled in innumerable Synods. Incidentally it represents a model bedroom-study of the later Middle Ages. The Friar Page 152 From the Ellesmere MS. of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, f. 80 v°. The Poor Parson 205 Ibid. f. 210 v°. The Knight 235 From the early fourteenth-century windows in Tewkesbury choir; one of the great house of De Clare. The Squire Ellesmere MS. f. no v°. 238