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Can't spot anything in J-C Schmitt's chapter on the subject (in La Raison
des Gestes). he has plenty of other quotes on the subject though
Laura
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From: Cecil T Ault <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 19. May
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> As I recall, Alcuin had some unpleasant things to say about plays &
> players. Can anyone direct me to sources on this? Thanks in advance.
> yrs, c.t. ault
>
>
> On Sun, 18 May 2003 17:59:56 -0700
> Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> >culture
> >
> >Today (19. May) is the feast day of:
> >
> >Alcuin of York (d. 804) Surely the only Engishman with pretensions
> >of
> >sanctity who isn't covered in the Oxford Dictionary of Saints.
> > Alcuin
> >studied at York, where he became head of the cathedral school. Sent
> >to
> >Rome on an errand for his archbishop, Alcuin met Charlemagne, and
> >soon
> >accepted his invitation to come to Francia. There, Alcuin was put in
> >charge of the palace school, and became the greatest luminary of the
> >Carolingian renaissance. His greatest work was editing the Bible; he
> >also
> >wrote on religious matters, fought Adoptionism, and even had the
> >nerve to
> >reproach Charlemagne for his heavy-handed missionary activities among
> >the
> >Saxons (getting Chuck to adopt a more moderate policy). A. was given
> >the
> >abbacy of several monasteries, but his monastic (and clerical) status
> >is
> >obscure.
> >
> >Dunstan (d. 988) The English Dunstan was one of the leaders of the
> >tenth-century monastic reform movement, first as abbot of
> >Glastonbury, then
> >as bishop of Worcester and finally archbishop of Canterbury. He
> >collaborated very fruitfully with King Edgar to reform much of the
> >English
> >Church. D. was also a very active diocesan bishop. A cult sprang up
> >immediately after D's death. Legend reports that D. was a
> >metal-worker; a
> >favorite story is how, when the devil came to tempt him when he was
> >working, D. wrung the devil's nose with his tongs.
> >
> >Celestine V (Peter of Morrone) (d. 1296) A canonized saint with the
> >distinction of being in hell, at least according to Dante, as the
> >author of
> >"The Great Betrayal." Peter was born to a peasant family. He became
> >a
> >hermit and eventually gathered his disciples into a monastery, which
> >won
> >approval as the Celestine order in 1274. After a long deadlock, in
> >1294
> >the College of Cardinals elected this 84-year-old political child as
> >pope---after he had written warning the cardinals of divine
> >retribution if
> >they kept avoiding electing a pope. Celestine V was hopeless as
> >pontiff,
> >especially exploited by the king of Naples. He was also miserable.
> > He
> >built a little hermitage within the Lateran palace to hide; when that
> >didn't work well enough, he abdicated (the only pope ever to do so).
> > This
> >cleared the way for the election of Boniface VIII, who, when
> >Celestine
> >tried to escape Italy, had him imprisoned for the rest of his life.
> > C's
> >canonization in 1313 was above all a move to discredit Boniface VIII.
> >
> >Ivo of Brittany (d. 1303) Ivo studied canon law and theology at
> >Paris,
> >then civil law at Orleans. He then became judge in the church courts
> >of
> >Rennes. He won renoun for his impartiality, incorruptibility, and
> >care for
> >the poor. I resigned his judicial duties in 1287 to work as a parish
> >priest; in that position he built a hospital and personally cared for
> >the
> >sick, besides continuing to act unofficially as an arbitrator. I.
> >was
> >canonized in 1347.
> >
> >John Duns Scotus (blessed) (d. 1308) Duns Scotus' beatitude was
> >confirmed
> >in 1992. He was a Scot (not Irish), who was educated at Melrose and
> >then
> >became a Franciscan at Dumfrieds. He then went on to become one of
> >the
> >great theologians of the later Middle Ages.
> >
> >Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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