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Landericus and Wacherius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Extract

In the Gemma Ecclesiastica of Giraldus Cambrensis there is an allusion to two songs which were evidently current among minstrels of the twelfth century, though they are unknown to us at the present time. The passage is found in the Second Book, where the author is attacking the practice of simony then common among the clergy. Of priests who read the mass twice or oftener upon the same day for the sake of donations additional to the one which it was customary for them to receive upon these occasions, he says:

“Hi etiam et similes sunt cantantibus fabulas et gesta, qui videntes cantilenam de Landerico non piacere auditoribus, statim incipit cantare de Wacherio; quod si non placuerit de alio.”

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1910

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