tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250713400045458826.post5297348326598018200..comments2022-08-07T16:00:37.776-04:00Comments on Clio's Disciple: Reading for inspiration 3: From Heaven to Earthclio's disciplehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13640279322691564414noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250713400045458826.post-58554107040594021272008-08-15T09:16:00.000-04:002008-08-15T09:16:00.000-04:00Indeed. In later periods there were organized orde...Indeed. In later periods there were organized orders dedicated to redeeming captives, but I don't recall when those orders got going.clio's disciplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13640279322691564414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6250713400045458826.post-56292534552887683172008-08-15T07:41:00.000-04:002008-08-15T07:41:00.000-04:00That's interesting, and makes a lot of sense, part...That's interesting, and makes a lot of sense, particular this bit:<BR/><I>money left for clothing 12 honest paupers, for example, is symbolic and ceremonial, related to the donor's ideas about charity and poverty more than about the real needs of the poor</I><BR/>This kind of lines up with bequests of money for masses that one reads and thinks how unpopular the testator would be once the two hundredth mass for him had been performed... and complicated inheritance arrangements that clearly mess someone's hopes up. It's as with burial but with the agency reversed; the importance of the action is the performance of something, not the effect of it. But that leaves me looking at my stuff, where what one tends to get in pious bequests is not usually requests for masses but instructions to redeem captives of the Muslims... and wonder how realistic or sincere <I>that</I> was as an expression of intent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com