Hi, All. For all of the author's linguistic knowledge, they seem not to
know much about the material culture of the period. At that time, clocks
did not yet use a pendulum, and the ettiquite of the wearing of the
collar of S's had not yet really been established. Look at the portrait
of Henry VI in the National Portrait Gallery. His S's on what probably
was a leather or woven collar went both ways (I wonder what the author
might conjecture that to mean?) More's collar was the proper Tudor one
with the portcullisses (Beaufort of Lancaster, true). In the web pic as
well as in another more painting, the s's are "backward" But the
Holbein pic shown in Davenport shows them right way around, as it were.
Proving what? Nothing that I can tell. Mike T. PS a lot of fun reading,
though...
Just for fun--here's an analysis of a copy of Holbein's sketch of
Thomas More's Family:
http://www.holbeinartworks.org/bfourstmandtpitt.htm
Anyone who makes it all the way through gets a cookie!
-E House
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