The Shrine and Head of St. Hugh of Lincoln
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11614717 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Precentor Venables (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1893 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-61 |
| Publication date | 1893-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.1893.10852571 |
| OpenAlex | W2330862137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
crop of miracles followed Hugh's burial.Over these we need not linger much.They are of the ordinary type which we are familiar with in mediaeval hagiology.Their chief interest lies in the side-light they throw on the life of the period, and the local names preserved in the narratives.Wigford, i.e., the southern portion of the city beyond the river, appears several times in connection with crippled and lunatic girls and a tongue-tied boy, and Pottergate as the home of a dumb lad, all cured by passing the night by the tomb.We have a curious picture of the condition of the present decorous Minster-yard, or ''atrium ecclesise," in the thirteenth century, when a palsied lad builds himself a hut outside the precentor's gate,and is supported by his alms and those of the other canons, until he too receives healing at the tomb.There is a curious reference to Eustace, Abbot of Flay, who, it will be remembered, came on a mission from his Abbey in Normandy in 1200 to preach the better observance of the Lord's Day and other reforms in England.In 1201 he came to Lincolnshire where, as in Yorkshire, his words, backed with the coarse imposture of a letter from heaven, had a powerful but transient effect.Divine judgments fell, it was believed, on the heads of those who scorned his admonitions.Among those stiffnecked folks whose cases are recorded by Hoveden 1 and Giraldus, 2 was a woman of Kent-" incredula nimis et indevota "-who was guilty of the heinous crime of winding the thread she had spun into balls after 3 p.m. on Saturday, at which hour, by the rules of the Church, the sanctity of the Lord's Day began and lasted till the Monday morning, and in spite of the remonstrances of her husband and her neighbours continued her wicked work.Suddenly both her hands stiffened.In dismay she came to St. Hugh's tomb for relief.The penitentiary, sub-dean William of Bramfield-the same who was murdered by a Vicar of the Church, four years afterwards, as he knelt in prayer at St. Peter's Altar (his murderer meeting with " lynch law " at thehandsof the sub-dean's servants-"statim membratim discerptus est"), gave no credence to her tale and turned her out of the Church.In her despair, beating her head with her closed fists, she journeys to Canterbury, if perchance St. Thomas might do for her what St. Hugh would
Archaeology · Art · Geomorphology · Head (geology · Geology · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Medieval Literature and History
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
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| Citation span | 1962 - 2016 (55) |
| Highly cited | No |