ClaireFromClare

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Interested in the life, times & legacy of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare - the remarkable #14thCentury patron of #ClareCollege at #CambridgeUniversity in England.
Also posting as @AquaClaire

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The 13th-century librarians at Rochester Priory weren't taking any cha⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
“Other religious houses were creative with their curses. ‘A book of [the Abbey of] SS Mary and Nicholas of Arnstein: If anyone steals it: may he die, may he be roasted in a frying pan, may the falling sickness [i.e. epilepsy] and fever attack him, and may he be rotated [on the breaking wheel] and hanged. Amen.’”
Rachel Morley in the excellent Summer 2026 magazine of the Friends of Friendless Churches. 🧵 2/2
#medieval #manuscripts #CrimePrevention
"The 13th-century librarians at Rochester Priory weren't taking any cha
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