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Biese, Alfred, 1856-1930

"The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times"


But it cannot be admitted that metaphor was freer and bolder in the
hymns; on the contrary, it was very limited and monotonous.]
[Footnote 18: In _Cathemerinon_.]
[Footnote 19: Comp. fragrant gardens of Paradise, Hymn 3.
In Hamartigenia he says that the evil and ugly in Nature originates
in the devil.]
[Footnote 20: Ebert.]
[Footnote 21: The Robinsonade of the hermit Bonosus upon a rocky
island is interesting.]
[Footnote 22: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 23: Comp. _ad Paulinum_, epist. 19, _Monum. German._ v. 2.]
[Footnote 24: _Carm. nat. 7._]
[Footnote 25: _Ep._ xi.]
[Footnote 26: _Migne Patrol_ 60.]
[Footnote 27: _Migne Patrol_ 59.]
[Footnote 28: Ebert.]
[Footnote 29: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 30: Comp. Biese, _op. cit._]
[Footnote 31: _Migne Patrol_ 58.]
[Footnote 32: _Carm._ lib. i.]
[Footnote 33: _Amoenitas loci_: Variorum libri Lugduni, 1677.]
[Footnote 34: _Monum. Germ._, 4th ed., Leo, lib. viii.]
[Footnote 35: _Deutsche Rundschau_, 1882.]
[Footnote 36: _Monum. German Histor., poet. lat. medii aevi_, I.
Berlin 1881, ed. Duemmler. Alcuin, _Carmen_ 23.]
[Footnote 37: Zoeckler, _Geschichte der Beziehungen zwischen
Theologie und Naturwissenschaft_. 'On rocky crags by the sea, on
shores fringed by oak or beech woods, in the shady depths of forests,
on towering mountain tops, or on the banks of great rivers, one sees
the ruins or the still inhabited buildings which once served as the
dwellings of the monks who, with the cross as their only weapon, were
the pioneers of our modern culture.


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