Assistant Professor of History
Phone: 852-6817
I emerge from the shadows to tap the collective erudition of the List. I
wonder if anyone might tell me whence originates the following story, related
in a sermon preached by the Dominican Pierre de Palme in the private chapel of
Cardinal Pierre de Prez in 1340:
In Britania maiori fuit quidam rex qui multos inimicos habebat. Ideo
de consilio quorundam uoluit edifficare in quodam loco multum forti
unam ciuitatem, in qua ibi se et suos contra inimicos tueretur. Sed
quidquid pro edificio illius ciuitatis multo tempore parauerat, una
nocte dispergebatur. Et cum hoc pluries fecisset, et semper totum
dispergeretur, habuit consilium cum quibusdam qui sibi consuluerunt
quod queret puerum, qui haberet matrem et non patrem, et de sanguine
eius aspergeret fundamentum illius ciuitatis; et edifficium staret,
nec amplius minaretur ruinam.
I suspect, of course, that the Venerable Bede has had a Venerable Hand in
this, but I have not as yet been able to find this story in his _History_. I
would be most grateful to anyone who can point me in the right direction. Many
thanks,
Blake Beattie
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