medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
> On 2 September 2011 23:47, Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> do you (or anyone else) happen to know, was Bernard at all influential in
championing this "cult eucharisque" idea?
> No, I don't think Bernard is generally considered in this way, but I'm open
to correction of course. Bynum does remark (*Holy Feast*, 94) that B.'s
frequent use of metaphors of eating and devouring &c., which he tended to
apply to the Word, prepared the way for intensified devotion to the Host.
thanks, Paul, for this opine and your other responses to my Franglaise query.
Monday was a holiday over in this part of the planet, and i'm trying to play
correspondence catch-up for the next few daze, but i'll get to your other
interesting posts as soon as i can.
the reason i was interested in Berni's possible influence on the Braine
eucharistique miracle was, as i indicated, that he was *such* a powerful
influence on my Guy, Henry "de France" --monk of Clairvaux, bishop of
Beauvais, Archbishop of Reims.
but, perhaps not in this matter.
>Recent scholarship seems to stress the role of women and of popular piety in
general in these developments rather than that of the formally learned. --
in (France) the 1150s?
the account of the Braine miracle which i have (mid-19th c., but surely based
on some older source) seems like it certainly wasn't in much of a "popular"
setting: a mass officiated by two bishops and an abbot.
perhaps the "cult*e* eucharistique" phenomenon began at the top and trickled
down, as the centuries passed?
*some*one had to plant that Acorn from which the Mighty Oak grew...
c
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