Indeed. What would be interesting for the organiser of this course is to
probe, for example, what the image of Cadfael,with his relatively plausible
basis in historical reality, adds to the popular or mainstream view of
monastic life in the Middle Ages. Is he the current 'popular' archetype of a
medieval monk? In what ways do different genres (novels, advertising, film)
affect these images?
Don.
>From: Francine Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: images of monks
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 13:46:40 -0400
>
> > From: Don Mowbray [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> >
> > Although I've never actually seen it, here in the UK there was a
> > television
> > series based on Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, starring Sir Derek Jacobi
> > as the eponymous monastic sleuth. So it would appear that monks also
> > solved murders in their spare time away from the divine office(!)
> >
> Ellis Peters was more conscientious than that. Cadfael was an
>ex-Crusader who became the monastery's herbalist and healer for the town.
>Most of his "cases" seemed to involve defending the wrongly accused and
>often the monastery--as the local hotel, healing, and sanctuary outlet--was
>involved in some way and so had an interest in the matter.
>
> Francine
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