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Could anyone help locate the source of this quote
from Richard of St Victor? We are editing a posthumous article and have
had some difficulty finding the original of this:
'But
today [Feast of Fools], more than other days of the year, they concentrate upon
fortune-telling, divinations, deceptions, and feigned madness. Today they outdo
each other in turn with offerings by observation of silly or superstitious
intent. Today, having been seized up by the furies of their bacchant-like
ravings and having been inflamed by the fires of diabolical instigation, they
flock together to the church, and profane the house of God with vain and foolish
rhythmic poetry in which sin is not wanting but by all means present, and with
evil sayings, laughing, and cacophony ... and many applaud with the hands of
priests, and the people love these things.'
Many Thanks
Nicola McDonald and Rosemary Hayes
Dr RCE Hayes
Honorary Treasurer
Canterbury
and York Society
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Edinburgh
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