Medieval Popular Religion 1000-1500
John Shinners (Edited)
Number of quotes: 5
Book ID: 150 Page: 5
Section: 2D2
But when they made bitter complaint and demanded justice, the Blessed Virgin answered them in these terms: “Spare me, I pray you, and be not troublesome to me, because I am not willing at present to lay any grievous burden upon him. For his wife, the Lady Ada, renders me a certain service which binds me to her in such bonds of intimacy that I am unable to allow any harm to befall either her or her husband.” And when the two saints sought to know what this service was, she answered: “That angelical salutation which was the beginning of all my joy on earth she repeats to me sixty times each day – twenty times while she lies prostrate, twenty times kneeling, twenty times standing upright, either in the church or in her chamber or in some private place, to wit: Ave Maris, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus et benedictus fructus ventris tu Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”
Quote ID: 3244
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 150 Page: 10
Section: 3A4B
THE FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL (1215)In 1215 Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) gathered at Rome twelve hundred archbishops, bishops, abbots, and prelates from across Europe to discuss the state of the church.
Canon 16. Clerics shall not hold secular offices or engage in secular and above all, dishonest pursuits.
Quote ID: 3246
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 150 Page: 13
Section: 3A2A
Canon 68. In some provinces a difference of dress distinguishes the Jews and Saracens from the Christians, but in others confusion has developed to such a degree that no difference is discernible. Whence it happens sometimes through error that Christians mingle with the women of Jews and Saracens, and, on the other hand, Jews and Saracens mingle with those of the Christians. Therefore, that such religious commingling through error of this kind may not serve as a refuge for further excuse for excesses, we decree that such people of both sexes (that is, Jews and Saracens) in every Christian province and at all times be distinguished in public from other people by a difference is dress, since this way also enjoined on them by Moses. On the days of Lamentation and on Passion Sunday they may not appear in public.
Quote ID: 3247
Time Periods: 7
Book ID: 150 Page: 157
Section: 2B2
For typical Christians, saints may have been role models, but they were more. Believing in sympathetic magic, where like affects like, most people used what they knew of saints’ legends (which were sometimes adapted tales of Greco-Roman deities and even when authentic were usually highly embellished legends) to assign them specialized areas of miraculous expertise.
Quote ID: 3248
Time Periods: 47
Book ID: 150 Page: 419
Section: 3A2A
And so throughout all Germany and France an infinite number of serving-boys, handmaids, and maidens (servulorum, ancillarum et virginum) followed their leader and came to Vienne, which is a city by the sea sic. There they were taken aboard some ships, carried off by pirates, and sold to the Saracens. Some who tried to return home wasted away with hunger, and many girls who were virgins when they left were pregnant when they returned. Thus, one can clearly see that this journey issued from the deception of the devil because it caused so much loss.
Quote ID: 3249
Time Periods: 7
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