Dera George,
Thank you very much for your help. I'll try to found this book at the national library.
I am aware that I have make a mistake : the URL is of my husband. So I am not Marc but
Laurence. Cats are very often compared to women in middle ages by misogynists, and it
was justice that a woman deal now with them...
About your cats that co-own you, do you know that Montaigne was saying something like
that : "when I play with my she-cat I dont'know if she is not playing with me".
Laurence Bobis
Drection du livre et de la culture
(Ministère de la culture, France)
George FERZOCO a *crit :
> Dear Marc,
>
> >I'm a newbie in this list...
>
> WELCOME / BIENVENU!!!
>
> that I found making research on ...medieval
> >cats.
>
> A very important subject, dear to my heart; I co-own four cats (or I should say, they
> co-own me!)
>
> It was the subject of my thesis in Paris and I am writing a book
> >from it. I was very surprised to browse all messages about cats in this
> >list (may be an heritage of anglo-saxon tradition of love to nature
> >and animals ?). In spite of the numerous sources that I already found
> >(in all kinds of texts (litterature, medecine, iconography,
> >archaeology...) , I still discover new treasures sometimes. I had a
> >hope with Julian of Norwich but all references about her and cats are
> >moderns (Anniina Jokinen' information). I know that cats would lickind
> >toads and serpents (Hildegard), I know of course the beautiful poem
> >about Pangur and the mention of the Ancrene Wisse ; I found many
> >mentions of excoriating cats and also of diabolic cats even in medieval
> >times but I never heard about Berthold von Regensburg's sermon against
> >cats. I will very grateful to Jim Marchand if he can indicate me an
> >edition of this sermon.
>
> Although I am not Jim Marchand, I am pleased to help you as I am able. I have the
> reference via an English translation of an extract of a sermon by Berthold, in *A
> Medieval Garner*, ed. G.G. Coulton (London, 1910), p. 354-360 (cf the edition of
> Berthold's sermons by Franz Pfeiffer, Wien 1862, vol. 1, p. 393). The sermon is not
> about cats, but deals with the nature of heresy and heretics. For this reason,
> Berthold expounds on the reasons why heretics were known as 'Ketzer' in Germany, and
> draws on the similarities he perceives between cats and heretics.
>
> All good wishes,
> George
>
> PS: Berthold is clearly wrong! :-)
>
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