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Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus By Robert Steele
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
The first years of the modern commercial system gave its death-blow to the popularity of this characteristically mediaeval work, and though an effort was made in 1582 to revive it, the attempt was unsuccessful - quite naturally so, since the book was written for men desirous to hear of the wonders of strange lands, and did not give an accurate account of anything. The man who bought cinnamon at Stourbridge Fair in 1380 would have felt poorer if any one had told him that it was not shot from the phoenix’ nest with leaden arrows, while the merchant of 1580 wished to know where it was grown, and how much he would pay a pound for it if he bought it at first hand. Any attempt to reconcile these frames of mind was foredoomed to failure.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition
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A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
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