medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
>
> To descend from great things to small, people are also sometimes
> surprised to learn that, although a few of its verses have a known
> medieval antecedent, "Gaudeamus igitur" is not attested before 1730.
> And then only in a German-language version thought to have been
> written ca. 1717. For details, see:
> http://ingeb.org/Lieder/gaudeamu.html
And, of course, "Adeste fideles" is of eighteenth-century date with a
Jacobite sub-text!
On the other hand, the two-word ante cibum grace, "Benedictus benedicat",
cannot be traced earlier than the middle of the nineteenth century. But it
must be older than that, because a Swiss Protestant writer at the end of the
sixteenth century tells the story of an unlearned Cistercian who employed
the formula, "Bernardus bernardat"!
John Briggs
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