On Mar 15, 2006, at 4:41 AM, Gail & Scott Finke wrote:
In latin: (for those who don't trust translations :-)
Femoralia hi qui in via diriguntur de vestario
accipiant, quae revertentes lota ibi restituant. Et
cucullae et tunicae sint aliquanto a solio quas habent
modice meliores; quas exeuntes in via accipiant de
vestario et revertentes restituant.
And in English:
Brothers going on a journey should get underclothing
from the wardrobe. On their return they are to wash it
and give it back. Their cowls and tunics, too, ought
to be somewhat better than those they ordinarily wear.
Let them get these from the wardrobe before departing,
and on returning put them back.
Wow! And I thought "Wear clean underwear without holes in case you
get in a
car crash and have to go to the hospital" was a NEW sensibility!
There's an even better example in Walter Map's "De Nugis Curialium"
where he tells a story of a monk whose order disdained underpants as
being too luxurious, so that when he took a tumble in the street he
exposed his ... parts for all and sundry to see. Walter gives the
moral of the story as something roughly equivalent to "sometimes
discretion is the better part of asceticism".
Heather
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Heather Rose Jones
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http://www.heatherrosejones.com
LJ:hrj
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