medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: John Briggs wrote:
>
>> Is it worth running "stultorum" through PL (perhaps in combination
>> with those) to see what happens?
>
> hits for "stultorum" in
> Volume 196
> Title: Tractatus de mundi fine; Author: Richardus S. Victoris
No, forget Richard of St Victor - we've already established that it probably
wasn't him :-)
You were trying "bacch" + "superstit" - how about combining those with
"stultorum"?
The original quote was:
'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.'
Of course, if it doesn't actually say "Festa Stultorum" (highly likely, in
the cicumstances) we are jiggered - try "circumcisionis".
John Briggs
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