Le sang des flagellants

• Autores: Anne Autissier
• Localización: Medievales: Langue, textes, histoire, ISSN 0751-2708, Nº 27, 1994 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Du bon usage de la souffrance), págs. 51-58
• Idioma: francés
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  • The Blood of die Flagellants - In 1349, to avert the Black Death, penitents walked in procession while flagellating themselves to « appease the wrath of God », notably in the imperial countries near the Marches of the northeastern kingdom of France and in Flanders. They were condemned by the Church, who deemed that the flagellants were investing the blood they spilled with a miraculous significance. Surprisingly, the documents left by the penitents themselves do not mention this condemnation. Yet the Church constituted a dossier of proscription rendered effective by a papal bull which resulted in the disappearance of the flagellant movement.