On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:52:08 +1000 Dr Hilary M. Carey wrote:
> From: Dr Hilary M. Carey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:52:08 +1000
> Subject: Re: wacky names
> To: [log in to unmask]
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> Jon Porter wrote:
> >I would question the appropriateness of the anachronistic labelling of
> >Abelard & Heloise as "yuppies
>
> I am chastened. But consider: A and E were youngish, members of a new
> urban professional elite, lived in what was becoming a university town, had
> an illegitimate child, did a lot of professional writing and teaching(or at
> least Abelard did) which made A gain a higher status in his lifetime he
> earned through his familly, and they gave their child a non-family and
> non-Christian name. I wonder what Abelard's Breton family thought of the
> name Astrolabe? I suspect Hue Denis's sixteenth century example linking the
> Virgin to the Astrolabe or Sphere is a conceit, not a traditional
> association.
>
> [Constant, are you there? What do you think?]
>
> Hilary Carey
>
As I pointed out earlier [but with my technological ineptitude I'm not sure that the message got
through], "Astralabius, puer Dei" is an anagram of "Petrus Abaelardus .ii." Sorry if I repeat myself.
See my article in Notes and Queries, September 1995. Bill East.
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