medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> As others have already suggested, call them 'furnishings' rather than
'furniture'. Whereas common parlance (in the USA at least) limits the latter
to tables, chairs, cabinets, and such, most readers will understand that the
former term also includes smaller, usually portable objects such as
candlesticks or liturgical vessels or framed paintings, to say nothing of
altar cloths, altar frontals and other paraments, carpeting, and hanging
objects of many sorts (e.g. crucifixes, lamps, wall tapestries). A short list
of examples will clue in readers lacking that understanding.
the Definitive Authority on the subject, google.com, seems to agree with you,
John, at least about "furniture"
http://www.google.com/search?q=ecclesiastical+furniture&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
and this hit on "ecc. furnishings" seems to include everything but the
officiating priest him-(or her-)self
http://www.churchantiques.com/
o.k., so i'm not up on the current nomenclatura.
don't rub it in, guys.
c
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