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Dear John,
I didn't find any hints for the fercula in Paris BEFORE 11th c., but your
explanation - ferculum in a metaphoric, traditional, figurative sense -
sounds much reasonable, even if we don't exactly know, what such a ferculum
really was. My idea about "bier with handles" came from the original stem
(fer-culum, from ferre = to bear, carry) and the necessity that the outdoor
fercula perhaps must have been suddenly saved, by the serfs, from rain and
storm.
Every further hint or bibliographical reference would be much appreciated.
Christopher: Your ancient map of the diocese of Chartres is wonderful and
very useful. Alas, the titles of the minor churches are not readable and the
right side seems to be cut off. Are you able to give a higher resolution and
greater format? I would be very thankful. And: Are there any further maps of
the neighbouring dioceses?
Thanks to all. WR
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Abelard, another point of view]
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> I didn't mean that the "fercula" were at this point in time still
platters, only that "platter", because of its association with food, was a
more likely underlying sense of the term here. You are describing a
full-blown, highly institutionalized practice that probably had humbler
beginnings. The name of the offering (if not its number) could easily be
traditional, with "ferculum" describing the object used at an earlier time.
By the twelfth century, the term could have been transferred to some larger
object. But the term could also have become metaphorical and now denote the
offering itself (or a unit of such an offering) rather than an object in
actual use for this purpose. If there were now such an object at all: I
wasn't able to access your URL for the 15th-cent. illumination, but it
occurs that these large gifts, however brought to a statio, might simply
have been piled up on the latter without a bier having been left there as
well.
>
> Someone who knows more about the terminology of gifts in kind to cathedral
chapters in earlier centuries might be able to shed light on this particular
nomenclature.
>
> Best again,
> John Dillon
>
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