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choco_frosh) wrote2005-07-23 04:17 pm
choco_frosh) wrote2005-07-23 04:17 pm
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Realm: Obscure references; Subrealm: About Schreibergasse
I've also jumped on the bandwagon of naming one's journal after one's place of residence (as with gaudynight.blogspot.com).
In the late middle ages, Schreibergasse ("Scribes' Street"), in the German city of Konstanz, was where all the minor clergy and bureaucrats lived. These guys staffed the courts of the Offizial and the Ammann (officials of the bishop, in theory at least), they compiled the tax registers and the town chronicles, they wrote the plays and the anti-peasant satires. If I had lived then, I would have been hanging out with them in the bar at the sign of Purgatory; as it is, I'm spending next year looking at their work for my dissertation. And living on their street, even if they changed the name to Konradigasse in the nineteenth century.
(Silly Germans. In this, I much prefer England, where Lombard St. remains obstinately Lombard St., centuries after Edward I's Italian bankers went bankrupt and moved back to Lucca, and Mickelgate stays Mickelgate eevn after the Danes have thoroughly assimilated into a local population who's forgotten that it once meant Main Street. But I digress. At least it's still a Gasse instead of a Strasse)
Anyway, this is my blog! Hurray! (Yes Seth, I know I should have just built my own, but I'm lazy). Entries here will appear as I feel like it, or have spare time (hah!), or have exciting things happen.
The icon is borrowed from Sovay, who got it from mswyrr. (Yes, I know, the prototype of Peter had a more pronounced chin). Anyway, I'll keep it until I create an icon of my own. Anyone know where I can find downloadable images from Beneventan Exultet Rolls...?
In the late middle ages, Schreibergasse ("Scribes' Street"), in the German city of Konstanz, was where all the minor clergy and bureaucrats lived. These guys staffed the courts of the Offizial and the Ammann (officials of the bishop, in theory at least), they compiled the tax registers and the town chronicles, they wrote the plays and the anti-peasant satires. If I had lived then, I would have been hanging out with them in the bar at the sign of Purgatory; as it is, I'm spending next year looking at their work for my dissertation. And living on their street, even if they changed the name to Konradigasse in the nineteenth century.
(Silly Germans. In this, I much prefer England, where Lombard St. remains obstinately Lombard St., centuries after Edward I's Italian bankers went bankrupt and moved back to Lucca, and Mickelgate stays Mickelgate eevn after the Danes have thoroughly assimilated into a local population who's forgotten that it once meant Main Street. But I digress. At least it's still a Gasse instead of a Strasse)
Anyway, this is my blog! Hurray! (Yes Seth, I know I should have just built my own, but I'm lazy). Entries here will appear as I feel like it, or have spare time (hah!), or have exciting things happen.
The icon is borrowed from Sovay, who got it from mswyrr. (Yes, I know, the prototype of Peter had a more pronounced chin). Anyway, I'll keep it until I create an icon of my own. Anyone know where I can find downloadable images from Beneventan Exultet Rolls...?
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I've never seen a photograph of the prototype except here, which doesn't so much give you an idea of the chin; and I'm fond of Leslie Howard.
Any of these any good to you?
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exsultet
I'm actually looking for an image of the subdeacon from what would (I presume) be the FIRST image on an exultet roll, and I haven't yet found one online, since google turned up what you sent me. Though it's now ALSO come up with a useful book. But I digress.
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But regrettably, London's Gropecunt Alley and Pissing Lane didn't survive the Victorian era's gentrifications - the latter became Passing Lane, and the former, with a wonderfully sly nod to its past, became Threadneedle Alley.
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(Half and half: I knew the site off-hand, because of some of the apocalyptic images, but had to check about the manuscripts you wanted. Does that still count?)
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:)
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The book: Cavallo, Exultet : rotoli liturgici del medioevo meridionale. Lots of pretty images (or so I hear: I'll be picking it up somtime tomorrow, when I might have time to look at it...)