p.42. William Burroughs — Junkie, Penguin edn, 1977.
pp.42–3. Stanley Cavell — op. cit., 102.
p.44. Graham Greene's comments — ‘The Lost Childhood’, in Collected Essays, Penguin Books, 1970, 13.
p.46. ‘And it was then’ — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, tr. David Magarshack, Penguin Books, 1953, 63.
p.48. ‘Do you know’ — Proust, op. cit., I. 163; I. 195.
p.51. ‘Tell me’ — I have used E. F. Watling's Penguin translation throughout: The Theban Plays, Penguin Books, 1947.
pp.59–60. St John — I have used the King James Bible throughout.
p.60. Peter Brown — The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, University of Chicago Press, 1981, 88.
p.64. ‘heals the sick’ and ‘He touches’ — Marc Bloch, The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France, tr. J. E. Anderson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, 81, 83.
p.64. darshan — E. A. Morinis, Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: A Case Study of West Bengal, Oxford University Press, 1984, 73. My thanks to Stephen Medcalf for introducing me to this book.
p.65. ‘Peter Brown’ — op. cit., 87.
p.66. ‘the distance’ — ibid.
pp.66–7. ‘The image’ — Morinis, op. cit., 182.
p.67. ‘In Tebessa’ — Brown, op. cit., 87–8.
p.69. Berkeley — A New Theory of Vision, XLI. I am grateful to Bernard Harrison for directing me to Berkeley's essay.
p.70. ‘How many times’ — Proust, ‘Journées de lecture’, in Contre Sainte-Beuve, 194; On Reading Ruskin, 128–9.
p.73. ‘Benares is to the East’ — Morinis, op. cit., 74.
p.73. Craig Harbison — op. cit., 187.
p.73. Eamon Duffy — The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580, Yale University Press, 1992, 199.
p.74. ‘You knight of Christ’ — quoted in ibid., 205.
p.74. A fascinating Lollard text — ‘The Testimony of William Thorpe 1407’, in Two Wycliffite Texts, ed. Anne Hudson, Oxford University Press, 1993. The quotes come from lines 1229–1389. I have modernised the spelling.
p.76. ‘for as moche’ — quoted in Duffy, op. cit., 580.
p.76. ‘By the end’ — ibid., 582.
p.77. It has often been remarked — the classic work is Louis Martz, The Poetry of Meditation, Yale University Press, 1954.
p.79. ‘A hectic trade’ — Brown, op. cit., 88–90.
p.79. ‘His body lay hidden’ — ibid., 91–3.
p.80. ‘the invisible gesture’ — ibid., 97.
p.80. ‘While the relic’ — ibid., 100–101.
p.81. ‘shall not show’ — this and the following quotes in Duffy, op. cit., 584–5.
p.82. ‘The price for such accommodation’ — ibid., 593.
p.85. J. A. Burrow: A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1965.
p.86. Father Zosima — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, tr. David Magarshack, Penguin Books, 1958,I.46.
p.89. Georg Christoph Stirm — Stephen Greenblatt first drew attention to this letter and published it in ‘A Passing Marvelous Thing’, Times Literary Supplement, 3 Jan., 1992, 14–15.
p.91. Nicholas Thomas — ‘Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages’, in The Cultures of Collecting, ed. John Eisner and Roger Cardinal, Reaktion Books, 1994, 134.
p.92. Krzystof Pomian — Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800, Cambridge, 1990.
p.92. Humanist popes — see Donald Home, The Great Museum: The Representation of History, Pluto Press, 1984, Ch.1.
p.95. ‘It has been estimated’ — Robert Harris, Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, Faber and Faber, 1986, 183–4. The other quotes in this paragraph come from pages 184–7.
p.95. ‘included an almost complete set’ — ibid., 111.
p.96. a specific genre of post-war art — see Saul Friedlander, Reflections on Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, Harper and Row, 1984.
p.96. ‘Why should anyone pay’ — Harris, op. cit., 387.
p.102. the Age of Suspicion — see Nathalie Sarraute's famous essay, ‘L'Ère du soupçon’, in L'Ère du soupçon: Essais sur le roman, Gallimard, 1956.
p.111. ‘Since his illness’ — Jonathan Cole, Pride and a Daily Marathon, Duckworth, 1991, 148.
p. 111. ‘Nothing is granted to me’ — Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, ed. Willy Haas, tr. T. and J. Stern, Schocken Books, 1953, 219.
p. 127. ‘how everything can be said’ — Franz Kafka, Diaries, ed. Max Brod, Penguin Books, 1972, entry for 23.9.1912.
p.136. Proust — ‘Chardin et Rembrandt’, in Contre Sainte-Beuve, 372–82.
p.137. ‘It is said’ — Denis Diderot, ‘Le Salon de 1767’, in Salons, ed. Jean Seznec and Jean Adhémar, Oxford University Press, 1983, III; there is an English translation by John Goodman, Diderot on Art, Yale University Press, 1995, II. 86.
p.138. ‘When the ancient mythologies’ — Francis Ponge, Nouveau receuil, Gallimard, 1976, 171–3.
Index
Aeschylus (i)
Oresteia (i)
Arundel, Archbishop (i)
Auden, W. H., New Year Letter (i)
Augustine, St (i)
Barrow, John (i)
Becket, St Thomas (i)
Beckett, Samuel (i)
‘Dante and the Lobster’ (i)
Molloy (i)
Waiting for Godot (i), (ii)
Bell, Sir Charles (i)
Benjamin, Walter (i), (ii)
Berkeley, George (i)
Principles of Human Knowledge (i)
Berryman, John, The Dream Songs (i)
Bible (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Bloch, Marc, Les Rois thaumaturges (i)
Boethius (i)
Braun, Eva (i), (ii)
Brown, Peter, The Cult of the Saints (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Browne, Thomas (i)
Burroughs, William, Junky (i), (ii)
Burrow, John, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (i)
Burton, Robert, Anatomy of Melancholy (i)
Cavalcanti, Guido (i)
Cavell, Stanley, The World Viewed (i), (ii)
Cervantes. Miguel de (i)
Chaplin, Charlie, City Lights (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste — Siméon (i), (ii)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (i)
Canterbury Tales (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Cole, Jonathan (i)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Dejection Ode (i)
‘This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison’ (i)
Cromwell, Thomas (i), (ii)
Dante (i), (ii), (iii)
Commedia (i)
Convivio (i)