| detailed historical account of what nobility is, &c. Schmalkalden, | | 1591. fol. Fol. 403. b. | | | | [207] _Petr. de Herentals_, Appendix, No. I. | | | | [208] _Jo. Trithem._ Chronic. Sponheimense, A. 1374. Opera | | historic. Francof. 1601. fol. p. 332. Also: _Abrah. Bzovii_ Annal. | | Ecclesiastic. Tom. XIV. Colon. Agripp. 1625. fol. Ann. 1374. | | (Maniaca passio. S. Johannis chorea.) | | | | [209] _Jo. Pistorii_ Rerum Familiarumque Belgicarum Chronicon | | magnum. Francof. 1654. fol. p. 319. Here the persons affected | | are called _dansatores_, _chorisantes_. See the whole passage in | | the Appendix, No. II. Compare Incerti auctoris vetus chronicon | | Belgicum, Matthæi veteris ævi Analecta. Hag. com. 1738. 4to. Tom. | | I. p. 51. “Anno MCCCLXXIV. the _dansers_ appeared. Gens impacata | | cadit, dudum cruciata salvat.” This should be salivat; a quotation | | from a Latin poem not now extant. | | | | [210] The Limburg Chronicle, published by _C. D. Vogel_, Marburg, | | 1828. 8vo. p. 27. This singular phenomenon cannot but remind us | | of the “Demon of Fashion,” of the middle ages. Extravagant as the | | love of dress was after the middle of the fourteenth century, | | the opposition of the enemies of fashion was equally great, and | | they let slip no opportunity of crying down every change or | | innovation as the work of the devil. Hence it is extremely probable | | that the fanatic penitential sermons of zealous priests excited | | this singular aversion of the St. Vitus dancers. In later times | | also, signs and wonders took place, on account of things equally | | insignificant, and the fury of the possessed was directed against | | the fashions. Compare _Möhsen’s_ History of the Sciences in the | | Mark of Brandenburg, p. 498. f. | | | | [211] _Petr. de Herentals._ Appendix, No. I. | | | | [212] Respecting the exorcisms used, see E. G. _Förstemann_, the | | Christian Societies of Flagellants. Halle, 1828. 8vo. p. 232. | | | | [213] Limburg Chronicle, p. 71. Cologne Chronicle, loc. cit. See | | Appendix, Nos. III. and IV. | | |