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

  • George Gordon Coulton
Date:
1947
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    CHAPTER XXXVIII (pp. 493-506) continued England (illustrated ed.), 11. 322, 532, 570, 753. Mr H. E. Bell of the Public Record Office has worked out the statistics of parochial institutions apart from exchanges and resignations—a pretty safe index of mortality—in two dioceses, for (A) 1348-50 and (B) 1361-2 respectively. Exeter A 435; B 253. Hereford A 190; B 65 [record slightly incomplete]. Compare Prof. A. Hamilton Thompson on “Pestilences of the Fourteenth Cent, in Dioc. York” (Archaeol. Journal, vol. lxxv). CHAPTER XXXIX (pp. 507-518) (1) For this subject the most valuable monograph is that of S. Luce, La Jeunesse de Bertrand du Guesclin. The Globe Froissart gives the atmosphere vividly, in spite of Froissart’s frequent inaccuracies of detail. (2) Luce, l.c. 125 ff. (3) Med. Vill. 342. (4) H. Pirenne, Econom. and Soc. Hist, of Med. Europe, 98, 100. (5) Memoires (ed. Buchon), 139 a. (6) Social Life, 33, 510. (7) Memoires (ed. Buchon), 136a. CHAPTER XL (pp. 519-533) (1) Piers Plowman, B, xx. 60 (cf. Five Centuries of Religion, u. 282). Friars and monks joined in with Antichrist for the sake of filthy lucre, “ And all the convent forth cam to welcome that tyraunt, And alle hise, as wel as hym, saue onlich folis; Which folis were well leuer to deye than to lyue loyalty Lenger, sith leute was so rebuked, And a fals fende antecriste ouer alle folke regned.” (2) Archiv f. Litt.- und Kirchengesch. II. 641 ff. (3) W. R. Inge, Christian Mysticism, ch. iv. (4) E.E.T.S. vol. 20. (5) Evelyn Underhill in Camb. Med. Hist. vii. 804-7. (6) An admirable edition of this remarkable auto¬ biography, reasonably modernized in spelling, etc. for the ordinary reader, has just been published by the owner of the unique MS., Col. Bowden-Butler. (7) See L. Caperan, Le Probleme du salut des infideles (1934), especially pp. i84ff. (8) Naissance de Vesprit laiquey II. 223. (9) Comentum (ed. Lacaita), v. 39. (10) Here is the original in Orm’s own spelling. Throughout the poem, he makes a short syllable by doubling the consonant: “Forrprihht se Jesuss fullhtnedd wass, He wennde himm inntill wesste. T>e Goddspell sezzp patt he wass ledd Turrh Gast inntill pe wesste, Annd patt forr patt he shollde paer Beon fandedd purrh pe deofell. Crist bilae i wessteland, Forr patt he wollde fasstenn, He toe pa to fasstenn paer Taer he wass i pe wesste. All wipputenn mete & drinnch Heold Crist hiss fasste paere Fowwerrtiz dazhess azz onnan . Bi dazhess, & bi nahhtess. Whanne hiss fasste forpedd wass Ta lisste himm affterr fode.” (Ormulum (ed. R. Holt, 1878), 11. 39.) (11) E.E.T.S. vol. 49, p. 95. (12) E.E.T.S. (1867), 5, 7. (13) Piers Plowman, C, IV. 51; cf. A, III. 49, B, ill. 48.