medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"bier" is correct for one sort of object called "ferculum" but the object more likely to underlie the present usage is a tray (Schale) or platter (flache Schale). "ferculum" in this latter sense is standard Latin from ancient times onward. Best, John Dillon
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:49:21 +0100
Werner Robl <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Not exactly. "quatuor fercula" = four biers (correct English?). It seems to
>have been a quite common unit of measurement for providing a certain
>quantity of food (meat, vegetable, eggs, bread, wine, cakes etc.) to the
>canons and staff, on the occasion of an anniversary day of a dead
>prebendary. Seldomly, a high member of the chapter gave five "fercula" for
>his "statio". There were 19 "stationes" at the chapter of ND.
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