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Do you have the Latin? I could run it through the Patrologia database.
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Could anyone help locate the source of this quote from Richard of St
Victor? We are editing a posthumous article and have had some
difficulty finding the original of this:
'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.'
Many Thanks
Nicola McDonald and Rosemary Hayes
Dr RCE Hayes
Honorary Treasurer
Canterbury and York Society
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Edinburgh
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