Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 16
now, within the pale of themedieval Church, viewed as a bad thing itself in hot pursuit of men. A Vaticanmanuscript of the Ladder of Paradise by Saint John Klimax^, written about theclose oi s. xi A.D., has two relevant miniatures. In the one^ Bios, a naked youthon wheels, makes after a monk, who… … Fig. 803. other (fig. 803)2 Bios again appears on his roller-skates, extending a hand toseize the monk, who stands irresolute, hesitating whether or not to abandon forAprospatheias sake his wife and children and happy home. A notable picture—one wonders if John Bunyan had somewhere seen the like.…
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