medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
At 7:51 AM -0800 2/4/05, John McChesney-Young wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>F. Thomas Luongo wrote in part:
>
>>On the other hand, we have an
>>ever-increasing supply of Mardi Gras beads. If anyone is interested, we
>>would happily trade beads for information.
>
>I'm delighted to know that your institution has a proper sense of
>priorities in scholarship, but I think they'd be better appreciated
>if sent instead to Chris Laning for _conversio ordinis atque morum_.
Thanks..... I think. ;)
That's provided you can demonstrate that plastic Mardi Gras beads
existed before 1600 or so, of course <g>.
(I do have a picture of a modern rosary made from plastic dice, which
from the look of them were Mardi Gras beads originally...)
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