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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:52:08 +1000 Dr Hilary M. Carey wrote: > From: Dr Hilary M. Carey <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 09:52:08 +1000 > Subject: Re: wacky names > To: [log in to unmask] > > Jon Porter wrote: > >I would question the appropriateness of the anachronistic labelling of > >Abelard & Heloise as "yuppies > > I am chastened. But consider: A and E were youngish, members of a new > urban professional elite, lived in what was becoming a university town, had > an illegitimate child, did a lot of professional writing and teaching(or at > least Abelard did) which made A gain a higher status in his lifetime he > earned through his familly, and they gave their child a non-family and > non-Christian name. I wonder what Abelard's Breton family thought of the > name Astrolabe? I suspect Hue Denis's sixteenth century example linking the > Virgin to the Astrolabe or Sphere is a conceit, not a traditional > association. > > [Constant, are you there? What do you think?] > > Hilary Carey > As I pointed out earlier [but with my technological ineptitude I'm not sure that the message got through], "Astralabius, puer Dei" is an anagram of "Petrus Abaelardus .ii." Sorry if I repeat myself. See my article in Notes and Queries, September 1995. Bill East. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%