Difference between revisions of "Whoyteboyce"
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| + | * '''Whoyteboyce:''' Once [[Verdons|Verdun]] was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. ''"The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."''[http://books.google.com/books?id=RDsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA459] | ||
| + | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdun#History Wikipedia] | ||
| + | ** [http://books.google.com/books?id=RDsaAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA459 The New monthly magazine and Literary Journal, 1829, Part II, p. 459] | ||
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* '''Whiteboys:''' an Irish agrarian association formed in 1761 to agitate against the tithe system of the landlords | * '''Whiteboys:''' an Irish agrarian association formed in 1761 to agitate against the tithe system of the landlords | ||
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboys Wikipedia] | ** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboys Wikipedia] | ||
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* '''white boy:''' a favourite | * '''white boy:''' a favourite | ||
| − | **Deirdre Bair, ''Samuel Beckett'': "Beckett was Joyce’s ‘white boy’" | + | ** Deirdre Bair, ''Samuel Beckett'': "Beckett was Joyce’s ‘white boy’" |
* '''White, Hoyte, Boyce:''' three Lord Mayors of Dublin → [[Image:Shem.png]], [[Image:Shaun.png]] and [[Image:Shem-Shaun.PNG]] | * '''White, Hoyte, Boyce:''' three Lord Mayors of Dublin → [[Image:Shem.png]], [[Image:Shaun.png]] and [[Image:Shem-Shaun.PNG]] | ||
* '''Whoyteboyce''' → [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160394 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | * '''Whoyteboyce''' → [http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/JoyceColl/JoyceColl-idx?type=turn&entity=JoyceColl001600160394 Third Census of Finnegans Wake] | ||
Revision as of 13:45, 5 April 2010
- Whoyteboyce: Once Verdun was the centre of a Europe-wide thriving trade selling young boys to be enslaved eunuchs to the Islamic emirates of Iberia. "The people of Verdun, however, according to Liutprand, carried their barbarity yet farther. They sold to the Arabs of Spain a large number of young men whom they emasculated, with the view of qualifying them to act as the guardians of eastern seraglios."[1]
- Whiteboys: an Irish agrarian association formed in 1761 to agitate against the tithe system of the landlords
- Whyte Boys Academy: an 18th century school on Grafton Street
- white boy: a favourite
- Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett: "Beckett was Joyce’s ‘white boy’"
- White, Hoyte, Boyce: three Lord Mayors of Dublin → File:Shem.png, File:Shaun.png and File:Shem-Shaun.PNG
- Whoyteboyce → Third Census of Finnegans Wake
