medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
It couldn't be that the speeding web-toed spliff-spinners were from
Louville-la-Chenard or Levesville-la-Chenard, some 40-45km ESE from
Chartres? -- Sorry, just had Google maps open, and ... So probably a
cognomen drawn from a toponym denoting their origins or major landholding.
One should make a distinction too between self name-changing (Benedict
Biscop takes Benedict) and what we might call aponyms (Boniface gets called
that by the pope, abbots changed names of novices, presumably so that there
wouldn't be twenty-eight monks called Frater Iohannes and fourteen answering
to Frater Petrus in the monastery).
Antonius (Ostiensis).
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From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious
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Sent: 07 May 2008 17:20
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Subject: Re: [M-R] New names in religion
Hi Chris,
You wrote:
>well, a cognomen is a kind of nickname.
Yes, but more in a positive way, isn't it? Not so much a degrading one.
>except that _chenardus/canardus_ doesn't mean "duck" in the 12th c.
Ah, bummer. I stand corrected.
>well, we don't really have to establish that "chenard" was used as an
heraldic
emblem, do we?
>only that it was a plant --it being well known that all sorts of plants
were
put to that purpose by the middlevils.
There is, sadly, no indication that the hemp leaf has ever been used in
heraldry until the early 1970's. In fact: the only plants/flowers that are
used in early heraldry, by which I mean 12-13th c, are the cinquefoil (later
refined into a rose) and the fleur de lis (but this is a rather late term
for this charge; the symbol might have meant something altogether different
originally). For instance: while the (Anglo-)Norman family of the counts of
Anjou called Plantagenet has been nicknamed (or cog-named?) after the
broomplant, it was never used on a heraldic shield.
>so, clearly, we are in the presence of a bunch of ill-tempered, dope
smoking
guys who walk [and talk] like a duck.
Well, you must agree it's a tempting image.
Henk
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