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- Title
„In circuitu impii ambulant" Goscelin von Canterbury, Petrus Damiani und das Tanzmirakel von Kölbigk.
- Authors
Rohmann, Gregor
- Abstract
This article analyzes the history and the inspiration behind the medieval European legend, called the "Tanz von Kölbigk" (the Kölbigk Dancers), which was written down by the German cultural researchers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. The author discusses several topics, including how the legend could have been inspired by the early Catholic church reform movement in the European Lotharingian region during the 11th century, how the Benedictine writer Goscelin of Canterbury might have found out about the legend when he moved to England in 1058, as well as how the story of the Israelite tribe worshiping a golden statue of a calf which was recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible has some similarities to the European legend.
- Subjects
EUROPE; LEGENDS; MEDIEVAL European history; LITERARY criticism; FOLK literature; MEDIEVAL church, 600-1500; EUROPEAN folklore; GOSCELIN, of Saint-Bertin, ca. 1035-ca. 1107; GRIMM, Jacob, 1785-1863; GOLDEN calf (Bible); GRIMM, Wilhelm, 1786-1859; FOLKLORE &; history
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 2, p245
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article