Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 56: A Quarterly Review If such stories as this were recited to stimulate devotion, what influence could they have had on the morality of the audience? Observe also the strange inconsistency with which this ever ready supporter of the views of the friars is made to do duty. At one time she is quoted as the avenger of a love of dress, at another she is made to send terrible plagues upon a lady who was so perverse that she would not wear her best clothes on Ladyday.' But the mediasval stories were not only remarkable for their audacity and irreverence; they are also to be noted as having in them nothing moral, in the proper sense of the term. It may, indeed, not unfairly be said that medieval reli ious stories have no moral basis whatever. They seem to be bles skilfully adapted by the preacher or teacher to enforce the particular duty or observance which he is anxious for the moment to inculcate, without any regard to their general moral bearing. Thus, in Robert de Brune, the hard and bitter usurer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.