medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Wickstrom wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Dear learned listmembers,
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> Since the identification of Vincent of Beauvais aka Thomas Needham
> was so quickly established (and the hardware of his writing desk so
> well analyzed), here is another problem I am having. The following URL
> is from a late 11^th or early 12^th c. illustrated Life of St. Maurus,
> the disciple of Benedict, from Paris (Troyes, 2378). The illustration
> shows Maurus leaving Monte Cassino to establish the first Benedictine
> monastery in France. He is accompanied by (among others) a delegation
> from the Bishop of LeMans who asked for the foundation. The third of
> these delegates from your right (with greenish hair and orange cloak),
> is holding some sort of instrument in his hand that I cannot even
> begin to identify. It may have to do with the animal skin (rug?) that
> is slung over his saddle. Can anyone help with this?
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> http://www.kzoo.edu/history/Wickstrom/Maurus.jpg (If you open this
> image in MS viewer or some similar viewer, you should be able to
> enlarge it enough without distortion to see the detail at issue.
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Probably a riding crop, badly drawn -- a handle & 2 little whip-thingies
[technical term alert] drawn too short here for practicality.
[The horse person in the household thinks so, too.]
Or else it is the neck & head of an ex-parrot.
DW
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