medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At a different level altogether - have you read, or better still seen a
production of - Christopher Marlowe's Dr Faustus ? ( 1604?) The play may ben
Renaissance, but the story (of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil
for earthly riches & glory) is much older. The late great Richard Burton did
a filmed version of this with students from Cambridge University and it may
be available as a video.
There is also a comic, drama on the same theme "Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay"
(Greene 1594) which is harder to find but which brings us to another
mediaeval cleric suspected of demonology: the Franciscan friar and early
scientist Roger Bacon 1214-1292. Bacon was a mathematician & experimental
scientist but imprisoned for heresy. In popular English tradition he is (or
was) the architypal demonised priest. He was reputed to have made a brazen
head which would foretell the future - very spooky.
Brenda M. C.
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