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
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>Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:57:52 CST
>Reply-To: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology
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>Sender: Medieval Texts - Philology Codicology and Technology
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>From: Jim Marchand <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Wounds of Christ
>To: Multiple recipients of list MEDTEXTL
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>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.
>
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