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Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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was the respectfelt for him that when he preached at Mayence, Cologne, and Spires, hishearers, though they could not understand a word of what he said, wereinflamed by the enthusiasm of his gestures, and flew to arms as eagerly asthe French crusaders. The same enthusiasm was reproduced a century later, when Foulquesde Neuilly was authorised by Pope Innocent III. to preach the Crusade of1108. When Foulques opened his mouth to preach, relates the chronicler 532 CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS ORATORY. Jacques de Vitry, who was himself an eminent preacher, it was God whoconferred upon him his persuasive accents. Those who had heard himstruggled to get a piece from his garments, and he was compelled to have anew frock every dajr. He was obliged to provide himself with a stout stick,-nath which he kept off the crowd which would otherwise have suffocatedhim. The) did not murmur at the wounds inflicted by the blows which hedealt them, and, in the ardour of their faith, they licked their own blood, as if
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Fig. 397.—Portrait of Pope Honorius III. (1216—1227), who exhorted Louis VIII. to undertakethe Crusade against the Albigenaes, and instituted in 1216 the Order of Dominican Friars.—Fresco Painting upon Gold Ground in Mosaic, in the ancient Basilica of St. Paul-v?ithout-the-Walls, Kome. it had been sanctified because made to flow by this man of God. Foidqueshad all the outspoken boldness of the popular preachers of the end of thefifteenth centur), sparing no man in his criticisms and anathemas. One day,when preaching before Richard, King of England, he exclaimed, I advisej^ou, in the name of God, to marry as quicklj as possible your three daughters,lest some evil befall jou. You are mistaken, rejoined the King ; I have CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS ORATORY 533 no daughters. I tell you that you have three, said the preacher ; theyare Pride, Avarice, and Luxury. Whereupon, the King, addressing himselfto the barons, said, I give Pride to the Templars, Avarioe to the Cistercianmonks, and Luxur

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