> >"Demures", > > Strictly, that means "houses", as in astrological houses. ------------
Hi Bill, I too understood so, but the meaning of Demure or Demore, in this case isn't House as astrological house. The meaning is exactly time and hour. ------------ In an > astrological chart, there are 12 of them alright, but (depending on > which system of house division is used, i.e., which method of > projecting the ecliptic onto the horizon) that would be equivalent to > 2 hours, or less, or more.... ------------ I think, by the way that there is a relation between, because the author of the manuscript tells about the six divided day, so using the double hours. But this way of calling the hours has become used to understand also the 12 hours because the author use the same word in a second passage, and in a 3th. The author use also the word "demurette" tu understand fractions of hour. -------------- Mario since you say it appears only > once, might it be a misunderstanding on the part of the 12th-century > writer?? --------------- We have this word only in one manuscript (there exist many copies of the same ms, with the same word) but repeted in many passages, so it is not a misanderstanding of the author. In this moment This word you may find inside the best glossary of medieval French with this meaning, and referred always with this author (Philippe de Tahon). Time ago I've written an article on the Bulletin of the BSS about it. Regards Mario -
