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abbot according Albans antiphonam bishop Bulaeus Cath Catherine play Chanson de Geste chap chapter Christ church Cluniac concerning connection Coussemaker dramatic E. K. Chambers Einsiedeln eleventh century Encyc Ernst Dümmler evidence fact farced epistle feast day feast day celebration feast day services feature footnote France Frankreich fratres Fulk Nerra Gallia Geoffrey Germ Girardus Hilarius Hildesheim and Fleury Hist holy honor hymns Ibid Isembert Jahrhunderts Kellner Latin Lazarus legend liturgical liturgique Loire valley manuscript Marignan martyrdom martyrs Matthew Paris mediaeval point Méril Miracle Play miraculorum miraculum monastery monastic monks Moyen Âge Nicholas plays Nicolaus nocte Normandy Orderic Vitalis origin Paris Patrologia Latina patron saint patrons of scholars period Petit de Julleville prior quae quam quia quod regard relation relics of St religious renaissance Rouen siècle significant Suchier theory thirteenth century tropes twelfth century unecclesiastical vernacular Vide supra Wace Weydig
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Page 16 - Deu plout. Les clers al oste demanda N'es po-ut muscier, si li mostra. Seint Nicholas par sa prière 225 Les âmes mist el cors ariere.
Page 10 - Flures inveniuntur catholici, cuius nos penitus expurgare nequimus facti, qui pro cultioris facundia sermonis gentilium vanitatem librorum utilitati praeferunt sacrarum scripturarum. Sunt etiam alii, sacris inhaerentes paginis, qui licet alia gentilium spernant, Terrentii tamen fingmenta frequentius lectitant et, dum dulcedine sermonis delectantur, nefandarum notitia rerum maculantur.
Page 34 - And because they have been used to slaughter many oxen in the sacrifices to devils some solemnity must be exchanged for them on this account, so that on the day of the dedication, or the nativities of the holy martyrs whose relics are there deposited, they may build themselves huts of the boughs of trees, about those churches which have been turned to that use from temples and celebrate the solemnity with religious feasting...
Page 10 - Unde ego, Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis, non recusavi ilium imitari dictando, dum alii colunt legendo, quo eodem dictationis genere, quo turpia lascivarum incesta feminarum recitabantur, laudabilis sacrarum castimonia virginum iuxta mei facultatem ingenioli celebraretur.
Page 38 - ... ante perveniri non queat. Poetas igitur adhibuit, quibus assuescendos arbitrabatur. Legit itaque ac docuit Maronem et Statium Terentiumque poetas, Juvenalem quoque ac Persium Horatiumque satiricos, Lucanum etiam historiographum. Quibus assuefactos, locutionumque modis compositos, ad rhethoricam transduxit.
Page 26 - Occidentis partibus omnino intolerabile est atque sacrilegum, si sanctorum corpora tangere quisquam fortasse voluerit. quod si praesumpserit, certum est quia haec temeritas impunita nullo modo remanebit.
Page 5 - Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, repraesentationes miraculorum quae sancti confessores operati sunt, seu repraesentationes passionum quibus claruit constantia martyrum ',2 1 Thomas Walsingham, Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani (Rolls Series 28, iv), I.
Page 41 - Der Geist des französischen Volkes regte sich am Schlusse des 11. Jahrhunderts auf das Lebhafteste und wendete sich besonders auf die Wissenschaften, welche die höchsten Fragen behandelten, die Philosophie und die Dogmatik. Die geistigen Kämpfe, welche sich in Frankreich daran knüpften und besonders durch die Gründung der Universität Paris ein festes Centrum erhielten, stellten im 12. Jahrhundert Frankreich den andern europäischen Völkern voran. Denn wo die höchsten Wissenschaften gedeihen,...
Page 8 - We know that literature and art and social life are not plants or animals, and that they have their own laws of existence ; but even if we try to keep steadily before us the fallacy residing in such terms as "organism...
Page 1 - Saint Nicholas par Deu le sout, S'empres fu la si cum Deu plout. Les clers al oste demanda N'es pout muscier, si li mostra. Seint Nicholas par sa priere Les ames mist el cors ariere. For ceo que as clers fist tiel honor, Font li clerc feste a icel jor De bien lirre, de bien chantier, E de miracles recitier.