← Previous revision Revision as of 01:08, November 1, 2009 Line 52: Line 52: The ''Legenda Aurea'' does not contain anything about hearts and last notes signed "from your valentine", as is sometimes suggested in modern works of sentimental piety (http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/golden169.htm). Many of the current legends surrounding them appear in the late ((Middle Ages)) in France and England, when the feast day of February 14 became associated with ((romantic love)). The ''Legenda Aurea'' does not contain anything about hearts and last notes signed "from your valentine", as is sometimes suggested in modern works of sentimental piety (http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/golden169.htm). Many of the current legends surrounding them appear in the late ((Middle Ages)) in France and England, when the feast day of February 14 became associated with ((romantic love)). - ==St. valentine's Day== + ==St. valentine's Day== died from anal rapage   + {{details|valentine's Day}} {{details|valentine's Day}} Historian Jack Oruch has made the case that the traditions associated with "valentine's Day", documented in ((Geoffrey Chaucer))'s ''((Parliament of Foules))'' and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer.<ref>Oruch 1981:534-565.</ref> He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century ((Antiquary|antiquaries)), notably ((Alban Butler)), the author of ''Butler's Lives of saints'', and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a ''Vies des saints'' (''illustration above''), saint valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at ((Terni)); there is no suggestion here yet that the bishop was a patron of lovers.<ref>((Bibliothèque National|BN)), Mss fr. 185. The book of ''Lives of the saints'', with ((Manuscript illumination|illuminations)) by Richard de Montbaston and collaborators, was among the manuscripts that ((Cardinal Richelieu)) bequeathed to the King of France (Further illuminations can be found (http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/MAN00866.htm on-line)).</ref> Historian Jack Oruch has made the case that the traditions associated with "valentine's Day", documented in ((Geoffrey Chaucer))'s ''((Parliament of Foules))'' and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer.<ref>Oruch 1981:534-565.</ref> He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century ((Antiquary|antiquaries)), notably ((Alban Butler)), the author of ''Butler's Lives of saints'', and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a ''Vies des saints'' (''illustration above''), saint valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at ((Terni)); there is no suggestion here yet that the bishop was a patron of lovers.<ref>((Bibliothèque National|BN)), Mss fr. 185. The book of ''Lives of the saints'', with ((Manuscript illumination|illuminations)) by Richard de Montbaston and collaborators, was among the manuscripts that ((Cardinal Richelieu)) bequeathed to the King of France (Further illuminations can be found (http://gallica.bnf.fr/Catalogue/noticesInd/MAN00866.htm on-line)).</ref>