tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post1873949585197149241..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Roods, Blood and BodiesJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-26183603658624964782010-09-02T17:21:05.231+01:002010-09-02T17:21:05.231+01:00I'll keep your recommendation in mind.
The re...I'll keep your recommendation in mind.<br /><br />The reason I brought ecumenism up is that I thought your comment bordered on being obnoxious for some Catholics, even though I'm not one myself.Ignorancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08840540848601019925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-504220440274825622010-09-01T07:54:33.180+01:002010-09-01T07:54:33.180+01:00Still, the Treatise on Relics is a marvellous read...Still, the Treatise on Relics is a marvellous read if anyone here has NOT read it.<br />Ecumenism is essentially a twentieth/twentieth first century movement: the subject of this post is the sixteenth century.Protestant Reformer.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-13038930078586734262010-08-31T20:02:40.263+01:002010-08-31T20:02:40.263+01:00I think most people here are already aware that Jo...I think most people here are already aware that John Calvin was not fond of relics.<br /><br />You might want to read up on ecumenism, by the way, it seems you missed that bus.Ignorancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08840540848601019925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-26518215749767316522010-08-31T14:54:50.712+01:002010-08-31T14:54:50.712+01:00Read Calvin's Treatise on Relics (1543),availa...Read Calvin's Treatise on Relics (1543),available on line. All the more amazing that the Catholic church fully re- affirmed all aspects of the cults in the sixteenth century.Protestant Refromernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-54798399740879374742010-08-30T20:52:34.218+01:002010-08-30T20:52:34.218+01:00I am not sure how much of Hilary Mantel's Wolf...I am not sure how much of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is fiction, but one relic discussed there was a vial of Mary's breast milk at Canterbury. At least I think it was Canterbury. <br /><br />I wonder how many churches claimed to have pieces of the cross?Michael Fugatenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-57821046561187627012010-08-30T14:56:56.970+01:002010-08-30T14:56:56.970+01:00Being even more pedantic here, but "rood"...Being even more pedantic here, but "rood" [ro:d] was also used in Old English to mean cross. See dictionary definitions below. Interestingly (?) enough, the meaning "pole" would probably also make it an acceptable translation of the Greek "stauros" for Jehova's witnesses.<br /><br />ród [] f (-e/-a) 1. a rod, pole; 2. rood (land measure); plot of land of a square rod; 3. a cross, rood (as in Holy-rood), gallows; (1) a cross on which a person is executed; (1a) the cross on which Christ suffered; (2) the cross as a form of punishment, death on a cross; (3) the cross as a Christian symbol; (3a) the cross as representing the ecclesiastical office; 4. crucifix; (1) in a church; (2) out-of-doors; (3) one that could be worn; 5. of cleared land;<br /><br />ródbígenga [] m (-n/-n) worshipper of the cross, one who worships a cross<br /><br />ródbora [] m (-n/-n) cross-bearer<br /><br /><br />ródehengen [] f (-ne/-na) hanging, crucifixion; a cross, crucifixion<br /><br /><br />ródetácen [] n (-tácnes/-) sign of the cross; crucifix<br /><br />ródewyrðe [] adj deserving hanging<br /><br />ródstybb [] m (-es/-as) a stump left in the clearing<br /><br />ródweorðiend [] m (-es/-) cross-worshipperAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-49839825867287986782010-08-30T01:00:25.496+01:002010-08-30T01:00:25.496+01:00I'm reminded of the Scottish Stone of Scone, u...I'm reminded of the Scottish Stone of Scone, upon which Kings of Scots were crowned. It was supposedly brought to England by Edward I in 1296 and not returned to Scotland in 1996. Rumors persist that it is a fake, and the real one is still hidden in Scotland. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4144587.eceEckadimmocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-41607872014395182112010-08-27T01:16:17.768+01:002010-08-27T01:16:17.768+01:00The abbey contained a famous carved crucifix known...<i>The abbey contained a famous carved crucifix known as the Rood of Grace (rood being old English for wood)</i><br /><br />Being slightly pedantic here, but "rood" is not so much Old/Middle English for "wood" but more like a word for "a length of timber or lumber". It survives in modern English in the word "rod".Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.com