The epidemics of the Middle Ages / From the German of J.F.C. Hecker. Tr. by B. G. Babington. Completed by the author's treatise on child-pilgrimages.

  • Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl), 1795-1850.
Date:
1859
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    footed, and there was about him a multitude of armed men, but so scattered in the fields that he could be seen of all who met him with that which he car- ried in his hand with great ostentation. 18. Martin Crusius, Historian, and Professor of Greek and Latin at Tubingen. [Martin. Crusius, annales Suevici, sive Chronica rerum gestarum antiquis- simse et inclytoe Suevicae gentis. Francofurti 1595. Fol. L.VII. Pars III. p. 405.] A. 1458. At Hall of the Suabians, on the Thursday after Pentecost, more than a hundred boys, against the will of their parents, made a pilgrimage to Saint Michael. But the senate assigned them an ass and a guide, lest any evil befal them. Aventinus writes to M. Joan. Herold that the pilgrimage of boys, suddenly stirred up, was made to S. Michaels in Normandy of France: and they could not be kept back by their mothers. Otherwise they immediately died. After- wards a great pestilence followed—Wonderful fanaticism. 19. Chronicle of the Monastery of Elwangen. [Chronicon Elwangensis Monas- terii excerptum perpraedictum D. Matth. Mareschalcum ab anno 1065 usque ad a. 1477. p. 453. Germanicarum rerum Scriptores aliquot insig- nes hactenus incogniti. Tomus unus, nunc primum editus. Ex biblio- theca Marquardi Freheri. Francofurti 1624. Fol. p. 463.] 1459. A number of Boys went on pilgrimage to St. Michael’s situated in the middle of the Sea, when the sea divided itself each day, the boys went through with their feet dry. 20. John Lindner, Monk at Pirna. [Excerpta Saxonica, Misnica et Thurin- giaca ex Monachi Pirnensis, seu, vero nomine, Joannis Lindneri sive Tillani onomastico autographo quod extat in Bibliotheca Senatoria Lip- siensi. Col. 1447. Jo. Burchard Menckenius Scriptores rerum Germani- carum, praecipue Saxonicarum. Tom. II. Lips. 1728. Fol.] And (MCCXXXVII) more than 1000 children assembled at Erfort, went to Arnstadt, danced, etc. there, the parents got cars, sledges and carts, they let themselves be fetched home, “ no one could find out the cause.” 21. Civitatis Erfurtensis Historia Critica et diplomatica, oder vollstandige Alte, Mittel-und Neue Historie von Erfurth etc. Ausgefertigt von Joh. Heinr. v. Falkenstein. Erfurt 1739. 4to. Buch II. Cap. 3. § 15. s. 84. JOHN CniLDS AND SON, PRINTERS.