See Frédéricq, _Corpus_, vol. iii, No. 25, pp. 23-4. [66] _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 101. See also No. 61. [67] _Ibid._, vol. ii, pp. 100-1. [68] _Ibid._, vol. iii, p. 35. See also p. 31: ‘ ... yperbolice loquendo, qua locutione solet frequenter uti scriptura ad exprimendum eius magnam quantitatem seu multitudinem, congrue dici possit per omnes christianitatis provincias jam esse diffusa.’ From a sermon preached before Clement VI, descanting upon the seriousness and extent of the attraction of the Flagellant mania for the ignorant crowd. [69] These acrobatic performances were of course of a convulsive nature and were by contemporaries ascribed to demoniac possession. But the idea of dancing and leaping as a form of religious devotion suggests the very charming story, _Our Lady’s Tumbler_, which has been rewritten by Anatole France and is included in _Aucassin et Nicolette and other Mediæval Romances_ in _Everyman’s Library_. [70] On the Scholastic Philosophy generally, see Taylor, _The Mediæval Mind_, vol. ii, book vii, _passim_; M. de Wulf, _History of Mediæval Philosophy_ (tr. P. Coffey, London, 1909), pp. 240-410 (_passim_); B. Hauréau, _Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique_ (Paris, 1880). [71] Taylor, _op. cit._, vol. ii, pp. 358-64. [72] P. Mandonnet, _Siger de Brabant et l’Averroïsme latin au XIIIe Siècle_ (Fribourg, 1899), pp. xxiii-xxvi; C. Douais, _Essai sur l’organisation des études dans l’ordre des Frères-Prêcheurs_ (Paris, 1884), pp. 62 _et seq._ [73] For Arabian Philosophy see the following: T. J. De Boer, _History of Philosophy in Islam_ (tr. E. R. Jones, 1903); De Wulf, _op. cit._, pp. 225-39; Hauréau, _Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique_, vol. ii, pp. 15-53; Carra de Vaux, _Avicenne_ (Paris, 1900), _Gazali_ (Paris, 1902); S. Munk, _Mélanges de la philosophie juive et arabe_ (Paris, 1859), pt. iii, especially pp. 352-83, 418-58. [74] Alfarabi’s work belonged to the first half of the tenth century. [75] Avicenna, 980-1036. [76] Ghazali, 1059-1111. [77] Ibn Roschd, or Averrhoës, was born in 1126 at Cordova; was entrusted by the Caliph, Abu Jacub Jusuf, with the task of making an analysis of Aristotle; in 1182 became physician at the court; but in 1195 was deprived of his office by the succeeding Caliph, Jacub Almansur, presumably owing to a fit of orthodoxy on the Caliph’s part, and banished from Cordova. He died in Morocco in 1198. [78] See Renan, _Averroës et l’Averroïsme_, pp. 107 _et seq._ [79] See Renan, _op. cit._, pp. 133-53 (_passim_); J. Owen, _Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance_ (1893), pp. 67-72. [80] Renan, _op. cit._, pp. 209 _et seq._, p. 291; De Wulf, _op. cit._, p. 248.