Robert de Boron and the Prose Merlin
There are so many wonderful things about the internet: there was a time when a scholar had to order through ILL and wait for weeks or months before he or she could set eyes on such works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini or Robert de Boron's Prose Merlin . No more. from Prose Merlin Robert de Boron Full wrothe and angry was the Devell, whan that oure Lorde hadde ben in helle and had take oute Adam and Eve and other at his plesier. And whan the fendes sien that, they hadden right grete feer and gret merveile. Thei assembleden togedir and seiden: "What is he this thus us supprisith and distroyeth, in so moche that oure strengthes ne nought ellis that we have may nought withholde hym, nor again hym stonde in no diffence but that he doth all that hym lyketh? We ne trowed not that eny man myght be bore of woman but that he sholde ben oures; and he that thus us distroyeth, how is he born in whom we knewe non erthely delyte?" Than ansuerde anothir fende and seide
Steven --
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, but I think you forgot to embed the link to the First Things article!
Dear Dylan,
ReplyDeleteSo here's thanks a second time. Should be fixed.
Thank you!
shalom,
Steven
I, for one, am glad the Bernadin Era is over.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr. Wilson,
ReplyDeleteI was sufficiently young and impressionable and relatively new to Catholicism at the time and thought that he was really the greatest of Church leaders. I have subsequently revised that opinion--although I'm still partial to "the seamless garment" although probably not in the sense that Cardinal Bernadin would have had me understand it.
Thank you.
shalom,
Steven