User talk:AFBorchert

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The picture of the desceased Shiekh was taken from the International Monetary Fund website. It was from a confrence in 2003 and the page listed under the public domain.

Yorktown1776 20:12, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Re: Image:Saint Oliver Plunkett.jpg

I'll have to take a look at it and get back to you. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 20:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Well i found the source file, here but the file along with the site does not give any clue to whom or when the work was done, to me it looks like an image one would see on a prayer card but i can not confirm that with any certainy. I also came across several other images of Plunkett that could be used to replace the current one. And while based upon their style one could guess that they are old, they like the current image also have no information who or when the art was done. Either way i would mark the image with ((PD-art}} but i am not sure that i would upload it to the commons, that eame would go to the other images as well.
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--Boothy443 | trácht ar 08:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clonard Abbey photos

Great contributions, thank you! Dppowell 16:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your nice notice, Dppowell, I'm glad that you like the pictures. Regards, AFBorchert 21:55, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lanfranc and Bishop Odo

Hi. Saw your edit on the WP:KENT page and that you were interested in certain ecclesiastical elements of Kentish history. As a new article related to Lanfranc, I thought I'd bring Trial of Penenden Heath to your attention. Any comments or new sources/references that you may have would be very much appreciated. Thanks for popping by. Dick G (talk) 10:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dick, thanks for your pointer to your interesting new article. I'm however no expert of English or Kentish church history, my main focus is medieval Irish church history. Hence, I cannot give you any comments except for the following minor point: Lanfranc was not Norman, he was just the prior of a Norman monastery, i.e. Bec. He was born in Pavia c. 1010 and educated in northern Italy. He felt quite foreign in Canterbury: I pleaded that the language was unknown to me and the native races barbarous, but to no avail ... I accepted the appointment, I arrived, I took office. Now I endure so many troubles and vexations every day--such hardness of heart, greed and dishonesty--that I am weary of my life. (excerpts from one of his letters) --AFBorchert (talk) 21:40, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the pointer, will clarify where I can. Interesting excerpt too. Kind regards Dick G (talk) 04:48, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
You'll find his letters in Helen Clover and Margaret Gibson (editors): The Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, Oxford Press, 1979, ISBN 0-19-822235-1. I do not currently have a copy of this book, just copies of his correspondence with Ireland and of the index. From the index it appears that this letter collection does not include anything that directly concerns the Trial of Penenden Heath but it is an interesting lecture which helps to understand him better. Some of his correspondence is also included in the corresponding edition of his successor: Walter Fröhlich (editor): The Letters of Saint Anselm of Canterbury, 3 volumes, Cistercian Publications. Kind regards, AFBorchert (talk) 06:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Great, thanks again. Dick G (talk) 08:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, AFBorchert! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 01:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)