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

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1947
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    CHAPTER VIII (pp. 92-102) (1) F. Curschmann, Hungersnote im Mittelalter (Leipzig, 1900), 9,20, 25-6,49, 52. (2) Social Life, 472. (3) Five Cent. I. Appendix XXIII. (4) Lanercost Chronicle, 109. (5) Exempla (ed. Crane, 1878), 131. (6) Life in M.A. I. 90. (7) G. L. Kittredge, in the preface to F. J. Child and H. C. Sargent, English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston, 1904), p. xviii. There is an interesting article on notices of sport in the Kingston parish accounts in the Journal of British Master Glass-Painters for Oct. 1935. CHAPTER IX (pp. 103-118) (1) Modern Language Review, Jan. 1907. (2) P.L. civ. 158. (3) P.L. civ. 214; cv. 161; R. L. Poole, Illust. Hist. Med. Thoughts (1920), 29. Cardinal Gasquet {Eve of Ref. (1900), 303) quotes liberally from Dives and Pauper to prove the falsity of the Reformers’ belief that “the Church had given occasion to wrong ideas of worship in the minds of the common people, and that the reverence shown to the symbol of our redemption [i.e. the Cross] on that occasion [Good Friday] amounted practically to idolatry”. He takes the liberty of omitting a passage, from the same pages of the hook from which he quotes, which gives the lie direct to his apologetics. For the author of Dives and Pauper writes, concerning the statutory Church ceremonies relating to the Cross: “And this blyndeth moche people in their redynge [interpretation] For they meane [think] that al the prayers that holy church maketh to the crosse, that she maketh them to the tre [wood] that Christ died on, or els to the crosse in the church, as in that anteme O crux splendidior. And so for leudnes [ignorance] they ben deceyued, and worshypp creatures as god himself” (Com. 1, c. 4 (ed. Berthelet), f. 15 v°). The Cardinal’s quotations from Dives and Pauper in his Parish Life in England are also very inaccurate. (4) P.L. cxlii. 675. (5) Lives of the Brethren (translated by Fr J. P. Conway, O.P. 1896), 290. From the recollections of Blessed Cecilia, a Roman nun who had been clothed by St Dominic himself. The saint came one night to her convent in Rome, and preached to the sisters from behind the grille. He warned them against the different shapes taken by devils to deceive the elect. “ The venerable father had scarcely said the word ere the enemy of mankind came on the scene in the shape of a sparrow, and began to fly through the air, and hopping even on the Sisters’ heads, so that they could have handled him had they been so minded, and all this to hinder the preaching. S. Dominic, observing this, called Sister Maximilla, and said: ‘Get up and catch him, and fetch him here to me.’ She got up and, putting out her hand, had no difficulty in seizing hold of him, and handed him out through the window to S. Dominic. S. Dominic held him fast in one hand and commenced plucking off the feathers with the other, saying the while: ‘You wretch, you rogue I’ When he had plucked him clean of all his feathers amid much laughter from the Brothers and Sisters, and awful shrieks of the sparrow, he pitched him out, saying: ‘Fly now if you can, enemy of mankind.’ ‘You can cry out and trouble us, but you can’t hurt us! ’... And so it came about that he employed for God’s glory what the enemy of mankind had from envy done for their hurt and hindrance. The sparrow which flew in that night disappeared, and no one saw whither he went.” (6) L'Eglise et la Pitie envers les Animaux, par la Marquise de Rambures (Paris, Lecoffre; London, Burns and Oates, 1903). (7) Alphabet of Tales (E.E.T.S.), 71. (8) See Five Cent. I. 107 ff. and Appendix XL (9) Ibid. 112 ff. (10) Depositions of Durham (S.S. 1845), 27. (11) Calendar of Chancery Petitions, I. 103, hi, 112, 173. (12) Surtees Society, 1890, 343. (13) See especially pp. 416, 464-5, 5°<>> 540, 549.