Your article says that “the Inexperienced Man [is] an historic determine from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth” (King Charles’s coronation invitation confirms use of title of ‘Queen Camilla’, 4 April). Whether or not the heraldic artist Andrew Jamieson, who created the coronation invitation, is conscious of it or not, the Inexperienced Man appellation is a time period misapplied by the beginner historian Girl Raglan in her 1939 article The “Inexperienced Man” in Church Structure, for the journal Folklore. The extra precisely named “disgorging foliate head motif” was a part of a brand new repertoire imported into England from northern France after the Norman conquest.

It’s a Christian/Judaic-derived motif regarding the legends and medieval hagiographies of the Quest of Seth – the three twigs/seeds/kernels planted under the tongue of post-fall Adam by his son Seth (offered by the angel of mercy accountable for guarding Eden) shoot forth, bringing new life to humankind. So, a Christian motif for the pinnacle of the Church of England.
Stephen Miller
Creator, The Inexperienced Man in Medieval England: Christian Shoots from Pagan Roots

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