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In this instance, William appears as her "most dear friend" (amicum dilectissimum), whom she honors with the status of martyr and patron saint as well as with miraculous powers. 119 The tales told about William of Norwich create a pattern continued in later accusations and begin a process of identifying these child-martyrs with the Virgin and the Christ Child.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Note 118: VW 3.6, pp. 129 — 32, at 130: "amicum suum qui penes uos est uisitare dilectissimum"; and p. 131: "Ecce regina celi et domini mater patronum huic ecclesie adeo assignatum martirem Willelmum amicum equidem suum uisitare dilectum uenit, coronauit, eique pro libito curandi potestatem contulit." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Qui super exanimem sese conjecit amicum confessus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Homer's works, so do I with thine epistles, tanquam Paeoniis medicamentis, easque assidue tanquam, recentes et novas iteramus; scribe ergo, et assidue scribe, or else come thyself; amicus ad amicum venies.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Optimum est amicum fidelem nancisci in quem secreta nostra infundamus; nihil aeque oblectat animum, quam ubi sint praeparata pectora, in quae tuto secreta descendant, quorum conscientia aeque ac tua: quorum sermo solitudinem leniat, sententia consilium expediat, hilaritas tristitiam dissipet, conspectusque ipse delectet.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Secundo loco Abrahamum dicunt fuisse verum Dei cultorem, et amicum.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

Offa interea Carolum magnum Regem Francorum frequentibus legationibus amicum parauit: quamuis non facile quod suis artibus conduceret in Caroli animo inuenerit.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Secundo loco Abrahamum dicunt fuisse verum Dei cultorem, et amicum.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

'Repente ad studium hunc se adplicasse musicum, amicum ingenio fretum, haud natura sua.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

We can no longer imagine an Englishman like Selling coming to the great Politian at Bologna and grappling him to his heart -- "arctissima sibi conjunxit amicum familiaritate," [152] as the warm humanistic phrase has it.

English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard