Gary Dickson wrote:
>....Perhaps if we read Durandus or the other great encyclopedists of the
medieval liturgy we are apt to forget the human
coughs-sneezes-wheezes-and-worse which probably punctuated the occasion; we
like to think that it was so rich in multiple symbolic meanings that
no one dared breathe until the last sound, the last iconic gesture, had
disappeared.
I have a firm memory of having seen, *some* dang where, a reference to a 13th
c. edict against *playing ball* in the nave of the cathedral (of Paris?)
**while the mass was being celebrated.**
I thought that last was a bit over the top.
Needless to say, have no idea of how to run down the reference.
Doesn't ring a bell with anyone, does it?
c
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