medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Briggs wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> Looking at Diana's link to Susan's Levan rood-screen panels, I can
>> almost convince myself that in both the first and second panels I see
>> the stylized letters "i h s" with an expansion dash above--viz., the
>> standard abbreviation for "Jesus" (though I'm not happy with my
>> purported "s" in either panel). But the 3rd panel stumps me unless
>> the picture somehow got reversed, in which case you could argue that
>> it spells "sitis," though that makes no sense in context.
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> "I h s" is quite often "i h c" for reasons which elude me.
>
> John Briggs
C is the Greek S in medieval documents, but why it would be used for an
otherwise Latin phrase eludes me.
DW
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