medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hello to you all,
i've been following this mailing list fot a few weeks know and this is my first
post, so i beg your indulgence for anylanguage mistakes that might occur ...
please be gentle...
In Lives of breton saints, there are very similar stories about gifts of
territories, very often as much land as the saint can circle in a limited time,
which land is very often given total immunity, thus forming what is known in
Breton "minihi". An example i've been working on is the legendary "minihi" of
saint Goulven, which gave its limits to the actual parish of Goulven in Léon,
Brittany. This story is recorded in this saint's twelfth or thirteenth century
Latin Life. Sometimes the saint uses his rode to mark the terrytory...
Good day to you all,
Yves
Selon Karl Brunner <[log in to unmask]>:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Am 6. Nov 2004 um 16:32 Uhr schrieb Christopher Crockett:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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> > From: Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]>
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> >> Leonard of Noblac (d. c. 559) ...founded Noblac on land he received
> >> as a
> > reward for praying successfully for the queen while she was in
> > labor---all the
> > land he could ride around on a donkey in a day.
> He should do so like Jesus Christ ...
> >
> >
> > that would have been quite an endowment in real estate.
> >
> > reminds me a bit of an account in the cartulary of St. Martin des
> > Champs (i
> > think it was) of the gift of a righ-of-way through a town, as wide as
> > the
> > donor's outstretched arms as he rode through it.
> >
> > the measuring of land was sometimes rather _ad hoc_, en ces temps la.
> I guess, those stories are reflecting ceremonies of taking possession
> of land, partly following Roman examples, but it depends of the source.
> >
> b.k.
> > c
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