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in English, a kind of "paddle" --though the English is not nearly as
resonantly onomatopoetic as the Dutch.
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Received: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:08:11 PM EDT
From: Henk <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] priestīs spades
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Its not a spade, its a ferule or instrument to slap lazy or unwilling
> pupils in school. In Dutch: a plak.
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> Henk
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Namens Madeleine Gray
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> Onderwerp: Re: [M-R] priestīs spades
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> I think I still have the photos and could send them off list - but also
> Marjorie Greene kindly put the photos on her medrelart site for me. I think
> the problem with identifying the artifact as a spade is that it's quite
> small - only about a foot long.
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> Maddy
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] priestīs spades
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Some time ago there was a discussion on this list about something that
> looked like a spade but
> turned out to have an educational association (sorry, my mind was taken up
> with other things at
> the time, I do remember some nice pictures from I think Henk . . .)
> I believe there was mention of a spade as a possible liturgical object,
> which would have been used to
> throw the first earth on the coffin of someone being buried. Can anyone
> provide references for
> this (or remind me what the thread was called, and how to get to the
> archive?)
> Meg
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