On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, T.A. RAYBORN wrote:
> This is nit-picking in the extreme, so please for give me, but
> usually these days the proper transliteration is "Muslim". The other
> continues to be used, but less frequently. The journal "Moslem
> World", for example, changed its name some time ago to "Muslim
> World".
not nitpicking. it makes sense and will help us pronounce it correctly
Musslim.
> Nevertheless, this movement was unpopular with the mainstream Church
> in Spain, and while the events were recorded by Eulogius and the
> layman Alvarus, and accounts were disseminated to other monasteries
> in Spain and France, it never "caught on", and memory of the events
> seems to have died with the last of the "martyrs", with the
> exception of one would-be martyr in the 10th century. I argue in my
> thesis that the spirit of the movement may have been resurrected at
> the time of the first few crusades, particularly with Peter the
> Venerable, who may have had access to the manuscripts.
what is your evidence for this (interesting speculation...)?
rlandes
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