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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Dear Tom, you probably already know this, but Jean-Claude Schmitt's La raison des gestes (now translated into English) has a fair bit on jongleurs and histriones (esp. Ch7) and the index has quite a few Alcuin refs. By the way, what was the history of German Theatre? Laura ----- Original Message ----- From: ctault <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:45 AM Subject: [M-R] > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear All, > > I just read the following account in a history of German theatre: > > During the time of Charles the Great the Histriones and Joculatores had fallen > into such disrepute that in the year 791 Alcuin, very disturbed about the > matter, exclaimed: "Whoever admits Histriones, Mimists and Dancers into his > house has no idea what a multitide of unclean spirits will follow them." > > Can anyone tell me more about this? To my knowledge, very little is known > about performance of any kind during this period and this is an intriguing > lead. Did Alcuin have more to say somewhere else? Are there other similar > sources? > > Thanks. yrs, tom ault > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html