Benedictine Maledictions : : Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France / / Lester K. Little.
"'May they be cursed in the chest and the heart, cursed in the stomach, cursed in the blood, cursed in the hands and feet and each of their members." Monks in medieval France lay flat before the altar as they intoned these maledictions laced with biblical "ations or paraphrases:...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Of Tristram Shandy and French Monastic Curses
- Part One. Curses in Texts
- 1. Formulas
- 2. Sources
- 3. Justifications
- Part Two. Curses in Action
- 4. Uses
- 5. Experts
- 6. Contexts
- Conclusion: New Contexts
- Appendixes
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index