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Another Source for The Cloister and the Hearth

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Charles Reade's masterpiece, The Cloister and the Hearth, gives an admirable picture of life in the Fifteenth Century. The reader wanders along deserted roads and through deep forests; he sees the inside of cottages, monasteries, inns, caves, and palaces; he makes the acquaintance of peasants and nobles, churchmen and artists, hermits and robbers. The life so opulently pictured is not limited to one country, but flows through Holland, Germany, Burgundy, and Italy.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , December 1925 , pp. 898 - 909
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1925

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References

1 Cloister and Hearth, ed. C. B. Wheeler, Oxford Univ. Press, 1915. My page references are always to this edition.

2 C. L. Reade and Compton Reade, Charles Reade (London, 1887), II. 89.

3 Op. cit., II, 91.

4 P. vii.

5 Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 139. The Spanish original is to be found in Francisco Gomez de Quevedo Y Villegas, Obras (Madrid, 1852), I, 516. (Historia de la Vida del Buscon Llamado Don Pablos, Book II, chap. 5.)

6 P. 260 ff.

7 Hist. des Hôtelleries, 75-76. The last point is in some satirical verses.

8 Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 207. Cloister and Hearth, pp. 243, 247-8, 251.

9 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 386 ff. Both French plates are from prints by Callot.

10 Ibid., pp. 387 ff.

11 Cloister and Hearth, p. 248; Bist. des Hôtelleries, II, 69-70.

12 Cloister and Hearth, p. 249; Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 245.

13 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 250 f.; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 74.

14 Cloister and Hearth, p. 249; Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 340-41.

16 Cloister and Hearth, p. 192; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 44.

17 Cloister and Hearth, p. 399; Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 338.

17 Cloister and Hearth, p. 196; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 123.

18 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 126, 394; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 97.

19 Cloister and Hearth, p. 259; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 4.

20 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 399, 408; Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 249.

21 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 376 ff.; Hist. des Hôtelleries, the plates opposite I, 312 and II, 368.

22 Cloister and Hearth, p. 378; Hist. des Hôtelleries, the plate opposite II, 84.

23 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 375, 376; Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 142.

24 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 565 ff.

25 I, 200 ff. The original Latin text may be found in Hrotsvithae Opera, ed. K. Strecker, Leipzig, 1906, pp. 169 ff.

26 Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 175. Michel and Fournier aptly remark of Fetzer, “On ferait le plus beau roman avec l'histoire de sa vie.”

27 P. 402 ff.

28 This may be suggested by the escape from prison of another bandit by weaving a rope of straw. The account is found within two pages of the Fetzer anecdote,—i.e., Hist. des Hôtelleries, II, 177.

29 Hist. des Hôtelleries, I, 344-45. The original of this, in Latin and German, is found in Luthers Tischreden (6 vols., Weimar, 1912-21), I, 379.

30 Cloister and Hearth, pp. 210 ff.