--- Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A related question: how does the West represent Pilate in the Middle
> Ages? I have read that the Abyssinian Copts regarded him as a saint.
> Does any of that translate into the West?
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
>
One does occasionally encounter a tradition of making him, if not a
saint, at least not as bad as he has been painted. I recall reading an
Old French text - it was thirty years ago, and I don't now have the
reference - I think it may have been Robert de Boron, or someone
equally inept - where the Emperor hears that his governor has crucified
the Son of God, is furious, and has Pilate brought before him to
explain himself. Pilate explains that he hadn't wanted to crucify
Jesus, but the Jews had forced him to do it. The emperor comments that
he has done badly, but not as badly as he had thought . . .
Oriens.
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