medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Another example would be St. Gilbert of Sempringham (4. Feb.). We don't know the nature of the defect that kept him from taking up his father's profession of arms. But whatever it was, it didn't prevent his father (a Norman knight, whose Anglo-Saxon wife is presumed to have had some landed wealth) from giving him a good education both in England and in France and from giving him on his return two churches in Lincolnshire well before he was ordained priest.
Best,
John Dillon
On Sunday, March 2, 2008, at 4:42 am, Karl Brunner wrote:
> Interesting in this connex ist Hermanus Contractus of the Reichenau,
>
> because he remembers in his Annales his mother very dearly ( Chon. ad
>
> 1052: Mater egenorum, spes auxiliumque suorum ... claris extulerat
> studiis): I think therefore, he must have been a beloved child, in
> spite of his defect.
>
> yours
> Karl
>
> Am 2.03.2008 um 10:55 schrieb Henk 't Jong:
>
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > culture
> >
> > I really meant heirs with a birth-defect like a clubfoot or humped
>
> > back. And
> > my period is the Middle Ages, not antiquity.
> >
> > Henk
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