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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Merci à tous ceux qui m'ont apporté leurs lumières concernant ma question du la dénudation ! Ces références me sont très utiles. D. Boquet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Bugslag" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 5:03 PM Subject: Re: stripping (to the skin) > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > >> There's this entry for the year 1212 from the annals of Albert, Abbot of >> Stade written between 1232-40. It comes after his brief description of >> the German phase of the Children's Crusade and suggests a link, at least >> in in Albert's mind, between pious enthusiasm and nudity . . . and it's a > nice medieval prototype of streaking: "Also, at this same time naked women > saying nothing ran together through the towns and cities." (Nudae etiam > mulieres circa idem tempus nichil loquentes per villas et civitates > cucurrerunt.) From Annales Alberti Abbatis Stadensis, ed. G. H. Pertz, > Monumenta > Germaniae Historica, Scriptorum 16 (Hanover, 1859), p. 355. > > This is reminiscent of something far more recent. In my youth in British > Columbia in > western Canada, the Doukhobor population there (a Christian sect from > western > Russia) was frequently in the news for stripping naked and burning down > their > houses, inspired, as they claimed, by voices directly from God. In this > case, their > peculiar activities were specifically related to a rejection of church and > civil > authority. > > I don't believe anyone has yet mentioned Mary Magdalen or St Mary of > Egypt, both > of whom renounced clothing and subsequently had their modesty retained by > miraculously growing hair which covered their bodies. > Cheers, > Jim Bugslag > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html