medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I suspect it lies in the manner of his death: being flayed alive. So
anything to do with the skin, and/or 'going under the knife' (not that many
medieval hospitals did surgery).
Pat Cullum
University of Huddersfield
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Subject: [M-R] Ave Maria/patron saints
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Many thanks to all. It looks as through the crucial grey area is precisely
the late C15/early C16 period that I'm interested in - but at least I can
explain things a bit better now.
On another subject. does anyone know why so many hospitals are dedicated to
St Bartholomew? I looked him up on a few saints databases and he's the
patron saint of people with nervous diseases and twitchings - but that
doesn't really explain the number of general hospitals, hospices etc. (Mind
you, it would make him a good patron saint for the QAA (UK inspectorate of
higher education institutions)!
Maddy
Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent
(Department of Humanities and Science
UWCN Caerleon Campus
PO Box 179
Newport NP18 3YG
Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675
http://humanities.newport.ac.uk/history.html)
'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'
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