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A wedding ring for three fingers

biblonia
Sep 18, 2012
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Now we all know everything about wedding rings but here's something that may not be that well-known. In the Norman pontifical from Lyre (in Evreux, France) there is something quite fascinating about the way a wedding was being conducted in the middle of the twelfth century. A pontifical is a sort of users manual for priests and clergy relating to the di…

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