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Linguistic Investigation of Old French High Spirituality
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The many valuable studies on Old French spirituality which we possess do not consider the higher spirituality par excellence, namely mysticism. The reason for it is evident: We have only a few Old French mystical texts, none of them presenting an adequately recognizable system. Consequently the meaning of the words and metaphors used there remains obscure, if there are no Latin parallel texts whose semantic implications are more evident. But even if Latin parallels help to a certain extent to clear up the meaning, there remains one fact which characterizes not only the Old French medieval mystical texts, but the German, Italian, and English ones as well. The popular mystical texts are vague and not as well organized as the texts of the Schoolmen, whose clear terminology generally contains a more precise expression of the Ineffable. The whole interest of the linguist lies in discovering how a young vernacular language competes in expressivity with the Latin of the theologian, and what it can achieve. The fact that a mystical literature in any vernacular comes into being, always means that experimental mystics tell others of their experiences, or that pious souls yearn for this religious experience of a direct contact with the Divinity after having understood the lore of those experimental or real mystics. For the linguist, of course, it makes no difference—as it does for the theologian or the psychologist—whether the mystical text comes from real or would like to be mystics. The latter in their urge can be poetically and lingusitically more creative than the former who, though religious geniuses, may turn out to be poor language makers.
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Doux Jhesus, trop demores, trop tardes à venir, …
Trop est longue t'atente et grief a sostenir
Tars viens et tost me laisses, trop mez à revenir:
Languissant et morant, no set que devenir. (107-111)
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141 Ibid., 94.
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146 Ibid., C, 18 k-m, p. 77.
147 Ibid., A, 33 g-i, p. 66.
148 Ibid., C, 11 k-m, p. 75.
149 Gerson, Mendicité spirituelle, ed. Pinet, loc. cit., ch. xvii, p. 80.
150 Ruysbroeck l'Admirable, L'Ornement des Noces Spirituelles, trad. du flamand par Maurice Maeterlinck (Bruxelles, 1891), ch. ii, pp. 18-19.
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154 Emilia Fogelklou, Die heilige Brigitta von Schweden (München: Reinhardt, 1929), p. 192.
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159 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Anhang i, B 9, p. 157.
160 Livre du Paumier, ed. Christ, loc. cit., 71.
161 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 30 h, p. 65.
162 Livre du Paumier, loc. cit., 76-77.
163 Bechmann, loc. cit., C, 17 b-c, p. 77.
164 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 9 e, p. 59.
165 Ibid., C, 13 k, p. 76.
166 Gerson, Ad Deum Vadit, éd. Carnaham, loc. cit., p. 127.
167 Ibid., 127.
168 Ibid., 128.
169 Ibid., 129.
170 Quercy, loc. cit., 194.
171 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, 547, p. 139.
172 Ibid., 474, p. 138.
173 Ibid., 323, p. 134.
174 Eximenes, Livre des Saints Anges, Ms. apud Godefroy, loc. cit.
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176 Ibid., p. 15.
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180 Ibid., 62, col. 1480.
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188 Ramon Lull, Amic et Amat, loc. cit., sentence 17, p. 29.
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191 Bechmann, loc. cit., C, 18 b-f, p. 77.
192 Waddington, Manuel des pechiez, v. 12 000-02, quoted by Allen, loc. cit., 155.
193 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 24 a-c; f-h, p. 63.
194 Livre du Paumier, ed. Christ, loc. cit., 77-78.
195 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 10 k-l, p. 59.
196 Ibid., A, 13 l-m, p. 60; 15 e-f, p. 61.
197 Ibid., A, 14 a-f, p. 60.
198 Jean Chuzeville, Les Mystiques Allemands (Paris: Grasset, 1935), p. 209.
199 A. Olmes, loc. cit., p. 34.
200 Berger, loc. cit., p. 96.
201 A. Olmes, loc. cit., p. 33.
202 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, 639-639, p. 141.
203 Sister A. J. Kinnirey, loc. cit., 98 and 70.
204 Ruysbroeck, Noces spirituelles, loc. cit., ii, 10.
205 Itinerarium, loc. cit., vi, p. 20a.
206 Chuzeville, loc. cit., 210-211.
207 H. D. Noble, O. P., L'Amitié avec Dieu. Essai sur la vie spirituelle d'après Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1932), p. 527.
208 De adhaerendo Deo, loc. cit., ch. xii, p. 535.
209 Summa Theologica, iia iiae, qu. 183, art. 2.
210 Ernesto Monaci, Crestomazia italiana dei primi secoli (Cittá di Castello, 1912), p. 190.
211 Giulio Bertoni, Il linguaggio mistico di Santa Caterina da Siena, in Lingua e Pensiero (Firenze, 1932), pp. 85-109.
212 Vittoria Colonna, Geistliche Sonette, ed. Arndts (Schaffhausen, 1858), p. 94.
213 Imitatio Christi, ed. F. Philips, loco. cit., Libr. i, ch. 25, §6, p. 79.
214 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 14 d-g, p. 60.
215 Ibid., A, 31 k-l, p. 65.
216 Scala Divini Amoris, ed. Motte, loc. cit., p. 14.
217 Bienheureux Aelred de Rievaulx, Traité de l'Amitié spirituelle, traduit par Frans Ingham (Bruxelles: Cité Chrétienne, 1937). (The book was translated by Jean de Meung, author of the second part of the Roman de la Rose.)
218 Bechmann, loc. cit., C, 13 d-e, p. 76.
219 Ibid., C, 15 l-m, p. 76; 16 g-i, p. 77.
220 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, 531-532, p. 139.
221 Bechmann, loc. cit., Brussels Ms, 1 a-b, p. 78.
222 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, 559-60, p. 140.
223 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 15 m, g, p. 61.
224 Ibid., C, 15 k, p. 76.
225 A. Olmes, loc. cit., p. 32.
226 A. Levasti, loc. cit., p. 261, quoted from La Vita della Salute.
227 Scala Divini Amoris, loc. cit., p. 9.
228 Bechmann, loc. cit., B, 15 a; e-f, p. 71.
229 W. Förster, “Altfranzösische Übersetzung der Predigten des Bernhard von Clairvaux” in Romanische Forschungen, ii (1886), p. 210.
230 Poetry from Ms Rawlinson 241,“ published by Paul Meyer in Romania xxix (1900), p. 9.
231 The Romanic Review, xxxv (1944), pp. 167-168.
232 Laude, ed. Ferri (Bari, 1913), no. lxxv.
233 Scala Divini Amoris, loc. cit., p. 9.
234 A. Olmes, loc. cit., p. 39.
235 Saint Caterine of Siena, Dialogues (London, 1896), ch. 27.
236 St. Gertrud, Opera (Solesmes, 1875), p. 656.
237 P. Quercy, loc. cit., p. 231.
238 Levasti, loc. cit., p. 305.
239 Grete Lüers, Die Sprache der deutschen Mystik des Mittelalters im Werke der Mechtild von Madgeburg (München, 1926), p. 178.
240 Cántico Espiritual, loc. cit., estr. 18, p. 505.
241 Bechmann, loc. cit., C, 16 a-c, p. 76.
242 Scala Divini Amoris, loc. cit., p. 9.
243 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, str. 25, v. 214, p. 132.
244 Ibid., v. 307-308, p. 134.
245 Ibid., v. 253-254, and 259-260, p. 133.
246 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 10, a-f, p. 59.
247 Bechmann, loc. cit., A, 18 k-m; 19 a-c, p. 62.
248 Ibid., B, 12 a-d, p. 70.
249 Cf. ibid., A, 15 K, p. 61.
250 Scala Divini Amoris, loc. cit., p. 15.
251 Bechmann, loc. cit., B, 91, p. 70.
252 Jan van Ruysbroeck, Werken, vol. i: Hel Rijke der Ghelieven, bewerkt door J. B. Poukens en L. Reypens (Mechelen: Het Kompas, 1932), 83.
253 Le Livre du Paumier, ed. Christ, loc. cit., p. 79.
254 Berger, loc. cit., p. 121.
255 De adhaerendo Deo, loc. cit., ch. xii, p. 535.
256 Jacobus Mediolanus, Stimulus Amoris, ch. 19, in Biblioteca Franciscana Ascetica, iv (Quaracchi, 1905), p. 116.
257 R. J. Kinnavey, loc. cit., p. 225.
258 Laudi, ed. Ferri, loc. cit., no. 90.
259 Prendergast, loc. cit., p. 98.
260 Summa Theol., ia iiae, qu. 108, art. 6.
261 Camino de perfección, ch. 38 in Obras completas, ed. Luis Santullano (Madrid, 1940), p. 289a.
262 H. A. Reinhold, The Soul Afire. Revelations of the Mystics (New York: Pantheon Books, 1944), p. 283.
263 A. Levasti, loc. cit., p. 992.
264 Bechmann, loc. cit., B, 14 g-i, p. 71.
265 Ibid., A 36 g-i, p. 67.
266 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Anhang i, no. 16, 17, 18, 28, pp. 157-158.
267 Karl Reuning, Joy and Freude, Diss., Swarthmore College, 1941, passim.
268 Bechmann, loc. cit., C, 14 b, c, k, p. 76.
269 Ibid., C, 12 l-m, p. 75.
270 Ibid., C, 11 a-b, p. 75.
271 Ibid., C, 15 l-m, p. 76.
272 A. Hilka, loc. cit., Text i, str. 25, v. 642-646, p. 141.