Du Cange is my last resort for obscure words. For his context see the
section on the Maurists in D. Knowles, Great historical enterprises (1963),
p. 42.
tom Izbicki
At 07:35 PM 12/29/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>"Bro. Thomas Sullivan, O.S.B." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >Niermeyer gives as his fifth definiton of "bajulus" the word "bailiff,
>princely or seignorial agent in charge of manorial, financial, adminstrative
>or judicial duties" (p. 78).
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>the *fifth* definition, eh?
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>duCange is always worth a look on these wierd, mutating terms; partly because
>he (unlike Niermeyer, who doesn't have the space) usually gives a great many
>more examples of actual usage drawn from the texts themselves --that guy must
>have been really hooked into the Maurist (??) network of
>scholars all over everywhere who fed him _fiches_. i've come across some
>*really* obscure (and, even today, unpublished) texts which he cites.
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> >Perhaps this might work in the texts given.
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>yes.
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>still leaves open the question of whether Brenda's texts deal with an Official
>of the abbey or of the Abbot.
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>to say nothing about the original question which started the string,
>concerning the Hagiographer and whether or not he's using the term in an
>allegorical or literal sense.
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