Romanorum

The hanging-penalty is, perhaps, a tattle exaggerated; but we find the same excess in the priestly Gesta Romanorum.

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It is related in the “Disciplina Clericalis” of Alphonsus (A.D. 1106); the fabliau of La vieille qui seduisit la jeune fille; the Gesta Romanorum (thirteenth century) and the

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Romanorum, of the Adulteress, the Abigail, and the Three Cocks, two of which crowed during the congress of the lady and her lover.

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We find precisely the same process in European folk-lore; for instance the Gesta Romanorum in which, after five hundred years, the life, manners and customs of the Romans lapse into the knightly and chivalrous, the Christian and ecclesiastical developments of mediaeval Europe.

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Jovinian (No. lix.) of the Gesta Romanorum, the most popular book of mediæval Europe composed in England (or Germany) about the end of the thirteenth century.

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Romanorum, Tale cviii., of Constancy in adhering to

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Gesta Romanorum (Tale xv.), to whom my friend, the late Thomas

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“Malik,” here used as in our story-books: “Pompey was a wise and powerful King” says the Gesta Romanorum.

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Judaeorum deum fuisse Romanorum numinibus una cum gente captivum.

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Note 74: Bernard Gui, Vitae pontificum Romanorum, ed.L. A. Muratori, RIS 3 (1723), p. 482: "Eodem autem anno [1210] pravi pueri ultra XC. millia sompnis recepti Cruce-signantur & Massiliam, atque Brundusium diversis agminibus venientes inanes redeunt." back

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