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> I was about to amend my statement to say that Cajuns are particularly
> known for them.
> MG
>
> -- Laurel Broughton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Around here (northern Vermont) bathtub Virgins are very serious and a
> reflection of the strong French Canadian influence.
>
> Laurel Broughton
> University of Vermont
>
> John B. Dillon wrote:
>
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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>> At 04:58 PM 6/25/2004 +0000, Marjorie Greene wrote:
>>
>>> Another howler is the use of an up-ended, half-buried bathtub to serve
>>> as
>>> a "shrine" for statues of Mary. What was that discussion recently
>>> centering on our distance from medieval superstitions? :-))
>>
>>
>> Marjorie, Are such bathtub shrines seriously meant or parodistic? In
>> either case, they are of course a form of the statuary niche, a
>> devotional
>> form going back to Roman times (at least). Between Roman times and the
>> recent past such niches may have been chiefly a form of ecclesiastical
>> or
>> other public decor; I don't suppose that the private practice of
>> erecting,
>> say, a front-yard Virgin in her arched concrete niche is very old. But
>> what do we know about smaller votive niches in the inside of, or in the
>> exterior fabric of, private homes in the Middle Ages? Are these known
>> to
>> have existed?
>>
>> Bathtubs are usually shiny porcelain: white ones (which is most of them)
>> substitute for the painted white exterior of the sort of free-standing
>> votive niche noted above. In some aesthetics, shininess or glitter is a
>> positive feature. South Italian or South-Italian-influenced niches or
>> edicules sometimes have panes of reflective glass inside them today.
>> That
>> particular feature harkens back to the glittery edicule-fountains found
>> in
>> villas of Roman Campania and may represent a continuity in taste, as
>> does
>> also (I suspect) the modern and ancient coastal south Italian practice
>> of
>> decorating such niches with seashells. (A striking example of the
>> latter,
>> from Roman-period Baiae, is in Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum, accession
>> no. GR.159.1910.)
>>
>> Best,
>> John Dillon
>>
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