L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
The article focuses on an exemplum located in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Libri VIII Miraculorum (book I, chapter 11). Because a monk feels guilty and fears to communicate, he decides to leave his community. He is punished for his crime, as a toad enters his body by his mouth. To explain this strange...
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Centre d'Études Médievales Auxerre
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cem/14731 |
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| Summary: | The article focuses on an exemplum located in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Libri VIII Miraculorum (book I, chapter 11). Because a monk feels guilty and fears to communicate, he decides to leave his community. He is punished for his crime, as a toad enters his body by his mouth. To explain this strange story, we will show that Caesarius conceived it as a rewritting of the Book of Jonah and according to the medieval conception of justice. Then the article stresses the main aims of the story. Caesarius does not condemn unworthy communion but non-attendance to communion. Therefore, his exemplum is quite original and probably tries to respond to problems, with which the cistercian order had to deal at the time. |
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| ISSN: | 1623-5770 1954-3093 |