At 07:27 AM 5/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
Perhaps, but I just don't know - those seem to be covered by "paganus"
elsewhere in the Penitential. I was wondering if there was anything on the
continent like the sects (probably wrong word) described some years ago by
Richard Sharpe in Eriu ("Hiberno-Latin laicus, Irish laech and the devil's
men"). I have come across nothing of the sort in the records for the
Rhineland at this period, but then I am really familiar only with pastoral
lit.
Bernadette
>Just a guess but it sounds like someone who has not been baptized.
>
>Jo Ann
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Giguere <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 6:51 PM
>Subject: devil's limb
>
>
>>Would any learned listmember have any idea who/what is meant by diaboli
>>membrum in the following passage from Burchard of Worm's Penitential (c.
>>1008-1012):
>>
>>Si autem sine odii meditatione, te tuaque liberando, diaboli membrum
>>interfecisti, secundum indulgentiam dico, propter imaginem Dei, si aliquid
>>jejunare volueris, bonum est tibi, et eleemosynas largiter fas (Schmitz,
>>Die Bussbucher 2, 415).
>>
>>He is neither a thief nor a brigand, because a 40 days' penance has already
>>been set for killing them.
>>
>>Bernadette Giguere
>>
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