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From: Karl Brunner <[log in to unmask]>
> But this group has been especially oriented to the veneration of the Holy
Cross. Aelred of Rievaulx, Bernhards friend, wrote often about it, for
instance in his "De speculo caritate", lib. VII., and serm. X or XXXVI.
That's not so far from the "cult[e] eucharistique".
thanks, Karl, for that observation.
i didn't realize that the H.C. was particularly high on the Cistercian list of
venerable objects. (i don't think i've ever come across a cistercian abbey
named for it.)
i'll check out the Aelred citation you mention.
c
>
> Am 07.09.2011 um 19:57 schrieb Christopher Crockett:
>
> > 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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