medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Genevieve (d. c. 500) ....She is famous for her posthumous miracles,
including...stopping an epidemic of ergotism in 1129.
i seem to have lost my copy of Bautier's wonderful article on "Paris in the
Time of Abelard" so i can't refresh my wretched memory on the details, but the
atmosphere in Paris in the late 1120s was extremely highly charged, with,
essentially, a smoldering civil war going on --and occasionally bursting into
real flame-- the product of the confluence of several secular and religious
dynamics :
--the "reform" of cathedral chapters (esp. those of Paris & Orleans) and the
"royal collegials";
--combined with a (partially related) serious split within the king's
"household," extending to the entourage of the queen;
--all seasoned by shifting alliances among the major royal "vassals," great
and small, in part egged on by Foreign (esp. anglo-norman) Powers.
it was not an easy time to be an overweight king; and Suger's account doesn't
tell the half of it, even between the lines.
no doubt Genevieve's "miracles" in these years were very closely and integally
woven into this complex political fabric.
oh, yeah, there happened to be a fairly serious schism in the papacy, just
about then.
wasn't it at St. G.'s church that there was a great dust-up (in 1130?) between
the canons and the entourage of Innocent II over the latter's "customary
right" to keep any carpets in any church which the Papa said mass on ?
best,
christopher
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