Some more general refs - V & E Turner, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian
culture (Blackwell, 1978) has references to the numerous legends of
shepherds finding images of the Virgin Mary.
Masses of refs for Graham on wounds of Christ - apart from the dreaded CW
Bynum, what do people think of Ellen Ross, The Grief of God (OUP 1997)? I
came across this, to my great irritation, after working out for myself some
very similar ideas on the subject.
Also:
Sarah Beckwith, Christ's Body: Identity, culture and society in late
medieval writings (London: Routledge, 1993),
Flora Lewis, 'The Wound in Christ's Side and the Instruments of the
Passion' in Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor, Women and the Book:
assessing the visual evidence (British Library/University of Toronto Press,
1996)
and there must be something in Gertrude Schiller's Christian Iconography.
Here in Wales the cult of the 5 Wounds runs over the great Reformation
divide: Glanmor Williams in Wales and the Reformation quotes from a poem by
Gruffudd ab Ieuan ab Llewelyn Vychan, attacking shrines, pilgrimages etc:
but the whole text of the poem also has a meditation on the redemptive
sacrifice and a detailed consideration of christ's wounds. So I suppose I
should not have been surprised to find the same theme in Wesley.
Is anyone else having difficulty accessing www.mediaevum.de ?
Maddy Gray
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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