Re: More on the Bayeux Tapestry...


"celia" <c_a_blay@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> > isn't it more likely to be a later invention
>
> snip >

> Time and again when I was trying to trace the
> goldsmiths' family, (a job made much more difficult
> by the power of the women) when I lost my way
> I was able to pick up the thread again and work
> backwards because I knew the saints that were
> important to them. Often the family's saints were ancestors
> Its not a thing that I could prove but it feels like
> a barely christianised version of ancestor worship.
> The equivalent to tracing the family back to Woden.

The same thing is probably true for most cases of ancestor worship. Having a
geneaolgy that fits, does not necessarily mean it is true. If people want to
feel related to some newcomer, anything will do to accept him. So both sides
incorporate their ancestors.

> Another of my theories (this time more mainstream)
> is that the donator of treasures and relics to
> religious houses kept a say in what happened to them
> and this was inherited.

Regular smaller donations (for general living), exceptional bigger grants
(for bigger projects), and your family would always have some influence. And
being influential would make you more inclined to keep donating.

The exchange of gifts is a time honoured technic of improving relationships;
the giving of gifts without a return-gift leads to obligations or even
domination. Have a look at Marcel Mauss, The gift, (Essaie sur le don 1912?)
there is always new editions around.

> snip >

have fun

Uwe Mueller


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