Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

by Clement A. Miles

[ 10.] Thomas of Celano, “Lives of St. Francis” (Eng. Trans. by A. G. Ferrers Howell, London, 1908), 84.

[ 11.] P. Robinson, “Writings of St. Francis” (London, 1906), 175.

[ 12.] “Le poesie spirituali del B. Jacopone da Todi,” con annotationi di Fra Francesco Tresatti (Venice, 1617), 266.

[ 13.] Ibid. 275.

[ 14.] Ibid. 867.

[ 15.] “Stabat Mater speciosa,” trans. and ed. by J. M. Neale (London, 1866).[365]

[ 16.] For German Christmas poetry see, besides Julian: Hoffmann von Fallersleben, “Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes bis auf Luthers Zeit” (2nd Edition, Hanover, 1854); P. Wackernagel, “Das deutsche Kirchenlied” (Leipsic, 1867); and C. Winkworth, “Christian Singers of Germany” (London, n.d.).

[ 17.] R. M. Jones, “Studies in Mystical Religion” (London, 1909), 235, 237.

[ 18.] “Meister Eckharts Schriften und Predigten,” edited by H. Buttner (Leipsic, 1903), i. 44.

[ 19.] Translation by C. Winkworth, “Christian Singers,” 84. German text in Wackernagel, ii. 302 f.