At 11:35 13.01.99 -0800, you wrote:
>In some of the versions of the Visio Pauli the earth and
>sun complain to God about mankind. Healey published a good
>edition of the Old English version.
>
>S.Rowley
Dear Sharon,
I have some doubts whether this is correct. I am familiar with some though
not with all the many versions of the Visio Pauli, with the earlier long
version as well as with several short redactions in Latin and in Vernacular
languages, but I don't think that I have ever encountered this motif in any
of them. A general judgement would have no place in the Visio Pauli,
whereas the particular judgement described for the individual soul does not
have any cosmic 'witnesses' in the versions known to me (what comes closest
but does not yet offer a match are angels and demons reporting the good and
bad deeds of man in the "morning and evening" of each day). I also don't
find any mention of cosmic witnesses in Antonette di Paolo Healy, _The Old
English Vision of St. Paul_, Cambridge (Mass.): The Medieaeval Academy of
America, 1978 (= Speculum Anniversary Monographs, 2). If you think that
your memory is nevertheless correct, I would be interested to know your
source.
Best regards,
Otfried
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