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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Main Author: François Wallerich
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Language:fra
Published: Centre d'Études Médievales Auxerre 2018-02-01
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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description 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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L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
Bulletin du Centre d’Études Médiévales d’Auxerre
monachisme
Césaire de Heisterbach
eucharistie
exemplum
ordre cistercien
title L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
title_full L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
title_fullStr L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
title_full_unstemmed L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
title_short L’eucharistie, l’apostat et le crapaud. Sur un exemplum de Césaire de Heisterbach
title_sort l eucharistie l apostat et le crapaud sur un exemplum de cesaire de heisterbach
topic monachisme
Césaire de Heisterbach
eucharistie
exemplum
ordre cistercien
url https://journals.openedition.org/cem/14731
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