Chapter XXIV: Parzival, the Brave Man Slowly Wise (4)

Women:
Emotion regarding, i. 349-50
Emotional Christ-love experienced by, i. 442, =459 seqq.=
Fabliaux’ tone toward, i. 521 _n. 2_
German prae-mediaeval attitude toward, i. 139, 150;
mediaeval, ii. 31
Monastic life, in:
Abuses among, i. 491-2;
Rigaud’s _Register_ as concerning, i. 479-480
Consecration of, i. 337 _and_ _n._
Gandersheim nuns, i. 311
Visions of, i. 442 _seqq._, 463 _seqq._
Monkish vilification of, i. =354 n.=, 521 _n. 2_, 532, =533=; ii. 58
Romantic literature as concerned with, i. 564
Romantic poems for audiences of, i. 565
Walther von der Vogelweide on, ii. 31

Worms, Concordat of (1122), i. 245 _n. 4_

Xenophon’s _Cyropaedia_, i. 78

Year-books (_Annales_), i. 234 _and_ =n. 1=

Yves, Bp. of Chartres, i. 262 _n._; ii. =139=

Zacharias, Pope, i. 199

Zoology:
Albertus Magnus’ works on, ii. 429
Aristotle’s work in, i. 38
_Physiologus_, i. =76-7 and n.=, 300; ii. 83

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The present work is not occupied with the brutalities of mediaeval life, nor with all the lower grades of ignorance and superstition abounding in the Middle Ages, and still existing, in a less degree, through parts of Spain and southern France and Italy. Consequently I have not such things very actively in mind when speaking of the mediaeval genius. That phrase, and the like, in this book, will signify the more informed and constructive spirit of the mediaeval time.

[2] There will be much to say of all these men in later chapters.

[3] _Post_, Chapter XI.

[4] See _post_, Chapter IX., as to the manner of the coming of Augustine to England.

[5] The Icelandic Sagas, for example, were then brought into written form. They have a genius of their own; they are realistic and without a trace of symbolism. They are wonderful expressions of the people among whom they were composed. _Post_, Chapter VIII. But, products of a remote island, they were unaffected by the moulding forces of mediaeval development, nor did they exert any influence in turn. The native traits of the mediaeval peoples were the great complementary factor in mediaeval progress--complementary, that is to say, to Latin Christianity and antique culture. Mediaeval characteristics sprang from the interaction of these elements; they certainly did not spring from any such independent and severed growth of native Teuton quality as is evinced by the Sagas. One will look far, however, for another instance of such spiritual aloofness. For clear as are the different racial or national traits throughout the mediaeval period, they constantly appear in conjunction with other elements. They are discerned working beneath, possibly reacting against, and always affected by, the genius of the Middle Ages, to wit, the genius of the mutual interaction of the whole. Wolfram’s very German _Parzival_, the old French _Chanson de Roland_, and above them all the _Divina Commedia_, are mediaeval. In these compositions in the vernacular, racial traits manifest themselves distinctly, and yet are affected by the mediaeval spirit.

[6] See _post_, Chapter V.

[7] The Predestination and Eucharistic controversies are examples; _post_,