medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
"they were all worked over *very* heavily in the 19th c. by Viollet-le-Duc and
others in the Monuments Historiques"
I was told by the venerable Denis Grivot himself that the man mooning those below was NOT a work of Gislebertus (with apologies to fans of Linda Seidel), but a 13th-c. addition. I rather doubt V-l-D would have had a hand in such.
On another topic recently discussed, I read in _The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe_ the following:
(After speaking of augury of the heavens, via birds and lightning, and "happy and unhappy houses [read, temples]" according to field of vision in Pliny...)
"It seems to me doubtful that the resolute exclusion of large windows from Romanesque churches derived solely from structural limitations. It may have sprung partly at least from a desire to eliminate the augural aspect of the temple building" (p. 119, note 70).
I offer this for perusal and/or discussion, having no position on the matter myself.
MG
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