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The Depositio of Beanus. Horns, Teeth and Other Bulges in an Initiation Ceremony in German Area (XV century) (2012)

Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 293--322

Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Language: English

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Human body Human-animal relationships Education Universities and colleges Human body 15th century Medieval Early modern Heidelberg Universität

In medieval universities were frequent initiation ceremonies for the introduction of freshmen in the consortium studentium. The recurrent terms purgatio, depositio, potatio, expupillatio, all recalling the idea of purification from a state of imperfection.The case described here is drawn from a didactic work, written in the form of a dialogue, in Heidelberg at the end of the XV century. This is a depositio cornuum of a young Tuscan beanus. The new student to access the studium must accept to suffer from two major colleagues the elimination of all those bumps that non decent hominem scholasticum: horns, long teeth, messy hair. These body extremities symbolically mark the difference between the condition of illitteratus -- similar to that of an animal -- and that of litteratus -- rational and therefore deeply human.

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