Subject: | | Re: Becket's Breeches |
From: | | Jim Kerbaugh <[log in to unmask]> |
Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 9 Aug 2000 10:47:11 -0500680_us-ascii On born-to-be-saints, John Kitchen, in Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender (Oxford UP, 1998) - a book with which I have some serious quarrels - does a very nice job of contrasting Venantius Fortunatus's portrayal of born-to-be saints with Gregory of Tours's portrayals of saints-despite-themselves, cranky and rude characters, rough around the edges, who nonetheless achieve sanctity. There are many hagiographies in which the saint exhibits saintly qualities from an early age (Boniface, for example, began to consider the advantages of the monastic life at the age of four), I can't recall any that involve prophecies or omens, though [...]40_9Aug200010:47:[log in to unmask] |
Date: | | Mon, 07 Aug 2000 09:10:28 -0500 |
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In the summer of 1998 I saw a film at the Heritage Center (formerly
the Poor Priests' Hospital). I believe the film was a brief history
of Canterbury, including a segment on Becket. It showed the lice
leaving the body as it cooled, but I don't recall wings or haloes.
I wonder if the reactions Carolyn describes provoked some editing?
Or perhaps it was a different film shown at another museum?
Regards,
Jim Kerbaugh
Carolyn Schriber wrote:
>
> Several years ago I viewed a short film on Becket's martyrdom; it was
> available for viewing at a museum in Canterbury, but not connected to
> the cathedral itself. In the scene in which the local women lay out
> Becket's body for burial, they discover the hair underwear. Fleas
> emerge from the fabric, walk to the edge of the table, sprout tiny wings
> and haloes and flutter off like so many tiny angels. There wasn't a dry
> eye in the room -- some tears from the pious women watching, others from
> those of us who were convulsed with attempts not to laugh.
>
> Carolyn Schriber
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