Christ’s Birth through Mary’s Right Breast An Echo of Carolingian Heresy in the Old English Adrian and Ritheus

• Published in: Source of Wisdom p. 266
• Main Author: THOMAS N. HALL
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press 15.12.2007
• Subjects: Alcoholic beverages; Ales; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied sciences; Arts; Ballads; Beers; Behavioral sciences; Beverages; Biological sciences; Biology; Ceremonial objects; Ceremonies; Childbirth; Childhood; Children; Church fathers; Crosses; Cultural anthropology; Cultural customs; Developmental biology; Devotional objects; Doctrinal theology; Fermented beverages; Food; Food science; Foodstuffs; Heresy; Human behavior; Human developmental stages; Human physiology; Human populations; Human reproduction; Human sexual behavior; Infancy; Music; Music genres; Performing arts; Persons; Physiology; Popular music; Population studies; Practical theology; Religion; Religious orthodoxy; Rituals; Sexual relations; Social sciences; Spiritual leaders; Systematic theology; Theology; Virginity
• ISBN: 0802093671; 9780802093677
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442684812.19

It would be difficult to single out the most arcane publication ever issued under the name of Thomas D. Hill, but a leading contender is surely the edition and translation of the two OE question-and-answer dialogues known asSolomon and SaturnandAdrian and Ritheus, which he published together with J.E. Cross in 1982.¹ The labyrinthine commentary that accompanies Cross and Hill’s edition of these texts is a magical mystery tour through some of the most extravagant and recondite learning of the early Middle Ages, an overflowing cornucopia of curiosities. What makes this edition such a fascinating work of