See Frédéricq, Corpus, vol. iii, No. 25, pp. 23-4.
[66] Ibid., vol. ii, p. 101. See also No. 61.
[67] Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 100-1.
[68] Ibid., vol. iii, p. 35. See also p. 31: ‘ ... yperbolice loquendo, qua locutione solet frequenter uti scriptura ad exprimendum eius magnam quantitatem seu multitudinem, congrue dici possit per omnes christianitatis provincias jam esse diffusa.’ From a sermon preached before Clement VI, descanting upon the seriousness and extent of the attraction of the Flagellant mania for the ignorant crowd.
[69] These acrobatic performances were of course of a convulsive nature and were by contemporaries ascribed to demoniac possession. But the idea of dancing and leaping as a form of religious devotion suggests the very charming story, Our Lady’s Tumbler, which has been rewritten by Anatole France and is included in Aucassin et Nicolette and other Mediæval Romances in Everyman’s Library.
[70] On the Scholastic Philosophy generally, see Taylor, The Mediæval Mind, vol. ii, book vii, passim; M. de Wulf, History of Mediæval Philosophy (tr. P. Coffey, London, 1909), pp. 240-410 (passim); B. Hauréau, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique (Paris, 1880).
[71] Taylor, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 358-64.
[72] P. Mandonnet, Siger de Brabant et l’Averroïsme latin au XIIIe Siècle (Fribourg, 1899), pp. xxiii-xxvi; C. Douais, Essai sur l’organisation des études dans l’ordre des Frères-Prêcheurs (Paris, 1884), pp. 62 et seq.
[73] For Arabian Philosophy see the following: T. J. De Boer, History of Philosophy in Islam (tr. E. R. Jones, 1903); De Wulf, op. cit., pp. 225-39; Hauréau, Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique, vol. ii, pp. 15-53; Carra de Vaux, Avicenne (Paris, 1900), Gazali (Paris, 1902); S. Munk, Mélanges de la philosophie juive et arabe (Paris, 1859), pt. iii, especially pp. 352-83, 418-58.
[74] Alfarabi’s work belonged to the first half of the tenth century.