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John Howe--another list member who seems to be having trouble posting to the list--sent me the following e-mail about John Chrysostom, which affords another interesting bit of information about the legens of John Chrysostom. Stephen A. Allen [log in to unmask] >Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:29:55 -0600 >From: John Howe <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: John Chrysostom >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] > >Like Marija-Ana Durrigl, I have a technical problem, an address shift >compatibility. If you are in the business of forwarding for this thread, >thanks: > > does anyone know of a tradition wherein >>John Chrysostom's proud denunciations of adultery and >>murder led to his muteness and animalistic behavior? It is >>an odd little reference, after all . . . >> >>Stephen a. Allen >>[log in to unmask] >> > > The tradition that Chrysostom became a "wild man" is part of the Western >vernacular lore. Although there are many tangential references to >this in literature on the wild man topos, the most extended discussion may >still be Charles Allyn Williams, Oriental Affinities of the Legend of the >Hairy Anchorite: The Theme of the Hairy Solitary in Its Early Forms with >Reference to "Die Luegend von Sanct Johanne Chrysostomo"... 2 volumes, >University of Illinois Studies inLanguage and Literature 10(2) and 11(4) >(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1925, 1927). > > --John Howe > Texas Tech > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%