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As I recall, Alcuin had some unpleasant things to say about plays &
players. Can anyone direct me to sources on this? Thanks in advance.
yrs, c.t. ault
On Sun, 18 May 2003 17:59:56 -0700
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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>Today (19. May) is the feast day of:
>
>Alcuin of York (d. 804) Surely the only Engishman with pretensions
>of
>sanctity who isn't covered in the Oxford Dictionary of Saints.
> Alcuin
>studied at York, where he became head of the cathedral school. Sent
>to
>Rome on an errand for his archbishop, Alcuin met Charlemagne, and
>soon
>accepted his invitation to come to Francia. There, Alcuin was put in
>charge of the palace school, and became the greatest luminary of the
>Carolingian renaissance. His greatest work was editing the Bible; he
>also
>wrote on religious matters, fought Adoptionism, and even had the
>nerve to
>reproach Charlemagne for his heavy-handed missionary activities among
>the
>Saxons (getting Chuck to adopt a more moderate policy). A. was given
>the
>abbacy of several monasteries, but his monastic (and clerical) status
>is
>obscure.
>
>Dunstan (d. 988) The English Dunstan was one of the leaders of the
>tenth-century monastic reform movement, first as abbot of
>Glastonbury, then
>as bishop of Worcester and finally archbishop of Canterbury. He
>collaborated very fruitfully with King Edgar to reform much of the
>English
>Church. D. was also a very active diocesan bishop. A cult sprang up
>immediately after D's death. Legend reports that D. was a
>metal-worker; a
>favorite story is how, when the devil came to tempt him when he was
>working, D. wrung the devil's nose with his tongs.
>
>Celestine V (Peter of Morrone) (d. 1296) A canonized saint with the
>distinction of being in hell, at least according to Dante, as the
>author of
>"The Great Betrayal." Peter was born to a peasant family. He became
>a
>hermit and eventually gathered his disciples into a monastery, which
>won
>approval as the Celestine order in 1274. After a long deadlock, in
>1294
>the College of Cardinals elected this 84-year-old political child as
>pope---after he had written warning the cardinals of divine
>retribution if
>they kept avoiding electing a pope. Celestine V was hopeless as
>pontiff,
>especially exploited by the king of Naples. He was also miserable.
> He
>built a little hermitage within the Lateran palace to hide; when that
>didn't work well enough, he abdicated (the only pope ever to do so).
> This
>cleared the way for the election of Boniface VIII, who, when
>Celestine
>tried to escape Italy, had him imprisoned for the rest of his life.
> C's
>canonization in 1313 was above all a move to discredit Boniface VIII.
>
>Ivo of Brittany (d. 1303) Ivo studied canon law and theology at
>Paris,
>then civil law at Orleans. He then became judge in the church courts
>of
>Rennes. He won renoun for his impartiality, incorruptibility, and
>care for
>the poor. I resigned his judicial duties in 1287 to work as a parish
>priest; in that position he built a hospital and personally cared for
>the
>sick, besides continuing to act unofficially as an arbitrator. I.
>was
>canonized in 1347.
>
>John Duns Scotus (blessed) (d. 1308) Duns Scotus' beatitude was
>confirmed
>in 1992. He was a Scot (not Irish), who was educated at Melrose and
>then
>became a Franciscan at Dumfrieds. He then went on to become one of
>the
>great theologians of the later Middle Ages.
>
>Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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