Dear Otfried
Many thanks for the useful references.
Best regards
Graham.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:37:57 +0100 Otfried Lieberknecht
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> Dear Graham,
>
> Jim Marchand, the spiritus rector of MedTextL, used to pick up bits and
> pieces about the (fairly traditional) notion of 'creeping into the wounds
> of Christ'. I am appending one of his relevant MedTextL-postings for your
> information.
>
> Best,
>
> Otfried
>
> [appended message:]
> >Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:57:52 CST
> >Reply-To: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sender: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: Jim Marchand <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Wounds of Christ
> >To: Multiple recipients of list MEDTEXTL
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >It is not only cows who are mad.
> >I was wrong; the thread on creeping into the wounds of Christ was
> >on Ansax-L, in June, 1991. I only kept a few of the postings; this
> >one is from Paul Schaffner: Douglas Gray, "The Five Wounds of Our
> >Lord," Notes and Queries 208 (1963), 50-51, 82-89, 127-134, 163-
> >168; Gougaud's _Devotions et pratiques ascetiques du Moyen Age
> >(1925). See also Gray's book: _Themes and Images in the Medieval
> >English Religious Lyric_.
> > Interesting, but not very informative on our theme: Vladimir
> >Gurewich, "Observatiosn on the Iconography of the Wound in Christ's
> >Side," Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes 20 (1957),
> >358-362.
> > The original thread got started because of a speech/sermon I
> >held on Toplady's Rock of Ages and Landow's misunderstanding of its
> >`let me hide myself in thee', an obvious reference to the _in
> >foraminibus petrae_ of Cant. 2.14, cf. St. Augustine, Manuale, 21:
> >"Tuta, et firma requies est infirmis et peccatoribus in vulneribus
> >Salvatoris ... quoniam misericordia affluunt, nec desunt foramina
> >per quae effluant. ...", and Manuale, 23: "Longinus aperuit mihi
> >latus Christi lancea, et ego intravi, et ibi requiesco securus,"
> >along with at least a bazillion other fathers. Julian of Norwich
> >widens this somewhat.
> >!
> >Jim Marchand.
> >
> [end of appended message]
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