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Hi Erik,
So if I understand you correctly this is a late 15th c translation of a 13th
c version of an early 5th c saint. The plot thickens. Late Roman women of a
certain class had special kinds of clothing, but during the 13th c women's
dress was just a longe cotte, fairly wide with narrow sleeves, as were the
cottes of highborn men. And priests. By the late 15th c though female
clothing was markedly different from male dress. How to understand this?
Beats me.
Henk
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Van: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Erik Drigsdahl
Verzonden: donderdag 22 oktober 2009 11:47
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Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] Medieval lighting [Jerome]
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
To make sure we know what we are talking about is here the relevent passage
from the Life of S. Jerome, translated by William Caxton, and cut out of the
Medieval Sourcebook (Legenda Aurea vol.5)
"And when he was nine-and-twenty years old he was ordained cardinal priest
in the church of Rome. And when Liberius was dead all the people cried to
have S. Jerome sovereign priest. And when he began to blame the jollity and
lavish life of some clerks and monks, they had indignation and despite of
him, and lay in a wait to hurt and slander him. And as John Beleth saith:
They scorned and mocked him by the clothing of a woman. For on a night when
he arose to matins, as he was accustomed, he found a woman's clothing Iying
by his bed which his enemies had laid there. And he weeping that they had
been his own, did them on, and so clothed came in to the church, and this
did they that had envy at him because others should ween that he had a woman
in his chamber. And when he saw that, he eschewed their woodness and went
unto Gregory Nazianzen, bishop of Constantinople. And when he had learned of
him the holy Scripture and holy letters, he went into desert, where, what,
and how much h
e suffered for Christ's sake, he recounted to Eustochium, and said that
when he was in that great desert and waste wilderness, which is so burnt by
the sun that it gave to the monks a right dry habitacle, I supposed me then
to be at Rome among the delices, and my members scalded, burnt, made dry and
black like to the skin of a Morian or an Ethiopian, and I was always in
tears and weepings. - - - "
Medieval Sourcebook:
The Golden Legend (Aurea Legenda)
Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, 1275
Englished by William Caxton, 1483
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/goldenlegend/index.htm
The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints. Compiled by Jacobus de Voragine,
Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. First Edition Published 1470. Englished by
William Caxton, First Edition 1483, Edited by F.S. Ellis, Temple Classics,
1900 (Reprinted 1922, 1931.)
The credit goes to Paul Halsall - please give the site a peep once a while
Best
Erik Drigsdahl
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