medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Merci à tous ceux qui m'ont apporté leurs lumières concernant ma question du
la dénudation !
Ces références me sont très utiles.
D. Boquet
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From: "Jim Bugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: stripping (to the skin)
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>> There's this entry for the year 1212 from the annals of Albert, Abbot of
>> Stade written between 1232-40. It comes after his brief description of
>> the German phase of the Children's Crusade and suggests a link, at least
>> in in Albert's mind, between pious enthusiasm and nudity . . . and it's a
> nice medieval prototype of streaking: "Also, at this same time naked women
> saying nothing ran together through the towns and cities." (Nudae etiam
> mulieres circa idem tempus nichil loquentes per villas et civitates
> cucurrerunt.) From Annales Alberti Abbatis Stadensis, ed. G. H. Pertz,
> Monumenta
> Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 16 (Hanover, 1859), p. 355.
>
> This is reminiscent of something far more recent. In my youth in British
> Columbia in
> western Canada, the Doukhobor population there (a Christian sect from
> western
> Russia) was frequently in the news for stripping naked and burning down
> their
> houses, inspired, as they claimed, by voices directly from God. In this
> case, their
> peculiar activities were specifically related to a rejection of church and
> civil
> authority.
>
> I don't believe anyone has yet mentioned Mary Magdalen or St Mary of
> Egypt, both
> of whom renounced clothing and subsequently had their modesty retained by
> miraculously growing hair which covered their bodies.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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