> From: "A.B. Mulder-Bakker" <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, RuG, NL
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> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:50:32 +0100
> Subject: Re: Empire
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> Date sent: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 17:18:38 -0500 (EST)
> From: Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Empire
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Is this not a utilitarian measure? When Fulk of Anjou died he was at
Metz where his entrails were left, the rest of his body being taken
to Loches after being preserved in spices!
Glaber 4.26 p.214 in my edition and see GCA p.117 (Marchegay &
Salmon)
There are other examples
>
John France
> Did the Western emperors ever practice separate burials of hearts & other
> entrails, as the French kings did; see the works of E. A. R. Brown? If
> so, that might be another area in which competition with the emperors
> might have occued.
>
> tom izbicki
>
> Yes they did. Henry II (if I remember well) died in Utrecht and his
> heart was buried there. His corpse was shipped to Spiers, where the
> Salien emperors had their tombes. The same holds tru for other
> emperors.
>
> Anneke Mulder-Bakker
>
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