Note 316 — Chapter XX · THE SECULARIZATION OF THE PLAYS
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Creizenach, i. 170, 227. The earliest German mention is at the council of Prague in 1366 (Höfler, Concilia Pragensia, 13, in Abhandl. d. königl. böhmischen Gesellsch. der Wiss. series v. vol. 12) ‘omnibus ... clericis et laicis ... mandatur ut ludos theatrales vel etiam fistulatores vel ioculatores in festo corporis Christi in processionibus ire quovis modo permittant et admittant.’ Extant Frohnleichnamsspiele are those of Innsbruck, †1391 (Text in Mone, Altteutsche Schauspiele, 145), and of Künzelsau, †1479 (ed. H. Werner, in Germania, iv. 338). Cf. the description (†1553) of Naogeorgos (transl. Googe) in Stubbes, i. 337.