> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:08:44 BST
> From: Bill East <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: FEAST 7 October
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Dear Bill East,
If you look in the Life of St William by Rodulfus Glaber in Rodulfus
Glaber Opera ed. J.France (Oxford Medieval texts,1989) p.287-8 you
will find that St William devised a simple rosary which was almost
certainly based on the cycles of Pater nosters on which see my
p.lxxvi and the article by Thurston `The Rosary' in THE MONTH 96
(1900) 408. His device was for ill-educated monks.
John France
> William of Malmesbury wrote that
> > Lady Godiva of Coventry (died 1075) bequeathed to a statue of Mary 'the
> > circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that
> > by fingering them one after another she might count her payers exactly. In
> > thirteenth century these were called 'paternosters'; people who made them
> > were called 'paternosterers'; in London these people worked in street
> > called 'Paternoster Row'.
> >
> >Has anyone ever seen a medieval paternoster? Was it exactly the same as a modern rosary?
> Oriens.
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