medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Saturday, March 7, 2009, at 2:34 pm, I wrote:
> 4) Paul the Simple (d. ca. 339)....
>
> Stories about P. treat him as extraordinarily literal-minded and as
> capable of other foolish behaviors that are used to highlight
> spiritual lessons.
That could have been expressed more clearly. Read: Stories about P. treat him as an extraordinarily literal-minded holy fool and use his eccentric behaviors to highlight spiritual lessons.
> In some respects, then, he is an early monastic
> version of the Franciscans' Brother Juniper. A convenient example
> occurs at the end of this English-language translation of the chapter
> on P. in the _Historia Monachorum_ in its Latin version by Paulinus of
> Aquileia, where P.'s seemingly petulant outcry to the Lord and its
> reward point to the lesson of Mark 9:29 (some exorcisms are possible
> only through prayer and fasting):
> http://www.touregypt.net/documents/aquileia8.htm
The Latin version is by _Rufinus_ of Aquileia. Apologies for the slip.
--JD
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