medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
--- CF <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
> religion and culture
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> I must say this puzzles me, too. Why would they
> have transcribed "Asciana"
> in Latin when the name "Astrane" must come from the
> Latin 'astra' which is a
> declined form of 'astrum' (star)?
Two possibilities come to mind: one is that the scribe
"corrected" a name he had never heard to what he
thought must have been intended. The other is that in
some medieval hands the "t" looks very much like a "c"
with a bar on top, and "r" does not look unlike an "i"
with a connecting stroke. (The two hypotheses are
not, of course, mutually exclusive.)
Is it certain, btw, that "Astrane" relates to
"astrum/a"? It looks to me as if it could equally be
a form related to Sp. "estrana" (tilde over the n -
I'm too lazy to look up how to do diacriticals)
meaning strange, foreign.
Andrea Sophia
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