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From: "Laura Jacobus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] 'vestimenta' as burial dues?
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> Thanks Tom. Here's the passage in full. It's from a list of expenses:
>
> 'Item grossos Venetos XVIII causa desepelliendi dominum .........., cum
> fuerunt accepta vestimenta sua'
>
> which I translate as something like
>
> '16 Venetian groats for his exhumation, since his vestimenta are accepted'
>
> Possibly they were exhuming him in order to rebury him somewhere else
> because they had accepted his burial payment/chantry bequest (he may have
> been a usurer, so there may initially have been a question over whether he
> could be buried consecrated in sacred ground). A more far-out possibility
> is that they are exhuming him to get their hands on his valuable
> vestments. Yuk! Neither explanation is hugely convincing, but I incline
> towards the former, and knowing what vestimenta are would obviously help!
>
> all best
>
> Laura
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> From: "Tom Izbicki" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: 13 February 2009 14:14
> Subject: [SPAM]Re: [M-R] 'vestimenta' as burial dues?
>
>
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> Laura,
>> I'm puzzled by this usage. the most common terms I recall from the
>> canon law are mortuaria & funeralia.
>> Raymond of Pennafort says moruarta are received on the day of the burial
>> (Summa book I tit. de sepulturis).
>> I will look for an adequate definition of funeralia.
>> Tom Izbicki
>>
>> Laura Jacobus wrote:
>>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>>> culture
>>> I've come across a puzzling reference to 'vestimenta'. As well as the
>>> usual sense of vestments etc. my concise edition of Niermeyer says it
>>> can mean' rent paid in recognition of eminent landlordship'. In this
>>> context, the 'vestimenta' have been accepted from someone who is being
>>> exhumed, so the context would suggest that they are some sort of
>>> burial dues. Has anyone else come across the use of the term? Could
>>> it refer to the stipend for a chantry bequest perhaps? I don't think
>>> people 'rented' burial plots. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Laura
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