I continue to envy your traveling opportunities and to be deeply grateful for the chance to enjoy your travels vicariously!
with the need for a kind of parliament to meet so lots of envoys can bitch about being bored to be posted here and write reports about it.
Hahaha, a long-suffering Whitworth says hi!
St. James, aka "The Scots' Church", actually was founded by Irish monks, whom the good citizens from Ratisbon could not tell apart from Scots, hence the name.
So, interesting linguistic tidbit: "Scotia" was originally a name for Ireland, and "Scot(t)i" a name for Gaels in general. Only when the Scot(t)i from Scotia started settling the northern part of the larger island next to them did that region start being called Scotia too. For a while, it was used of both places. Wikipedia tells me it was in the 11th century, a few centuries after the migration, that it really started to only mean what we think of as Scotland, and only in the 12th century that locals started calling themselves that. So your 11th century church is just within the period in which I'd expect Irish monks to be being called Scots without it being a confusion.
Alas, though, it was closed. I'm taking this personally. Towers are made for me to climb on.
Argh! I also climb whatever towers I can find, so I feel for you here.
BTW, it amused me that the most opulent envoy residence was the Saxonian one, because of course it was.
Lol, of course!
Alas, the museum dedicated to him is closed:
Argh again!
Thank you for sharing!
Have you read Stollberg-Rilinger's The Emperor's Old Clothes? It's on my list, since the blurb sounds interesting:
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.
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with the need for a kind of parliament to meet so lots of envoys can bitch about being bored to be posted here and write reports about it.
Hahaha, a long-suffering Whitworth says hi!
St. James, aka "The Scots' Church", actually was founded by Irish monks, whom the good citizens from Ratisbon could not tell apart from Scots, hence the name.
So, interesting linguistic tidbit: "Scotia" was originally a name for Ireland, and "Scot(t)i" a name for Gaels in general. Only when the Scot(t)i from Scotia started settling the northern part of the larger island next to them did that region start being called Scotia too. For a while, it was used of both places. Wikipedia tells me it was in the 11th century, a few centuries after the migration, that it really started to only mean what we think of as Scotland, and only in the 12th century that locals started calling themselves that. So your 11th century church is just within the period in which I'd expect Irish monks to be being called Scots without it being a confusion.
Alas, though, it was closed. I'm taking this personally. Towers are made for me to climb on.
Argh! I also climb whatever towers I can find, so I feel for you here.
BTW, it amused me that the most opulent envoy residence was the Saxonian one, because of course it was.
Lol, of course!
Alas, the museum dedicated to him is closed:
Argh again!
Thank you for sharing!
Have you read Stollberg-Rilinger's The Emperor's Old Clothes? It's on my list, since the blurb sounds interesting:
For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together. What determined the rules (and whether they were followed) depended on complex symbolic-ritual actions. By examining key moments in the political history of the Empire, the author shows that it was a vocabulary of symbols, not the actual written laws, that formed a political language indispensable in maintaining the common order.