At 02:15 PM 6/5/99 +0200, Tobias Kemper wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>the middle high german legend of the pope St Gregory (e.
g., see the
>"Passional" No. 22) mentions a horrible epidemic called
"pestis
>igwinaria". Do you have any ideas what "igwinaria" could
mean? My
>dictionaries here at hand don't help me.
>
>Any help is appreciated - many thanks in advance!
>
>Tobias Kemper
>
R. E. Latham, ed., _Revised Medieval Latin Word List from
British and Irish Sources_, contains the following entry:
inguinaria pestis c. 1188, 1362, i. plaga c 1362, bubonic
plague.
Stephen A. Allen
The Medieval Institute
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5692
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