I have a vague recollection of reading that Bishop Odo was armoured at the Battle
of Hastings. Presumably in such circumstances physical armour might be better
protection than the armour of Christ in that enemies, whether fellow Christian or
not, might not be too respectful of the man of the cloth.
Regards,
Richard Ramsey
aprescot wrote:
> Ah, the Church Militant! Two thoughts, which of course could be late-night and
> post-airplane fantasy: first, I have become more and more convinced that
> Spenser knew and was in part shaped by Erasmus' Enchiridion and Archimago's
> taking over the Pauline armor for me seems a general parody, of course, but
> also a perversion of the knighthood that Erasmus so compellingly describes.
> It's as though You opened up Durer's knight and found that wonderful devil
> wasn't on the path threatening him but actually inside the armor. Second,
> hadn't Ignatius been a soldier? I may be making that up, but I do know that
> Jesuits have sometimes been called the Pope's army. Anne Prescott.
>
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> >Hello! I'm suddenly wondering about thesources and cultural-historical
> >resonance of Archimago's impersonation of RCK, in particular his dressing as
> >(transforming into?) a knight ; provided we read Arch. as a priestly figure
> >or --better-- as a monk or friar, does anyone know of contemporary European
> >historical or past and present fictional characters with distinctly
> >ecclesiastical (Catholic or Prot or even Judaic and Muslim) establishment
> >identities who dress as warriors? Including, perhaps, images of an armored
> >Pope? I understand that Arch. is impersonating the One True Faith wrapped
> >in its Paul-to-Ephesians spiritual armor, thus is a covert-recusant Catholic
> >with all that implied politically in 1580's England, but is there another
> >reference here?
> >
> >--Tom Herron
> >
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> anne prescott
> english, barnard college
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