medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear Carlos,
Two points: the animals depicted may be just that, animals (fantastic at
that) and not necessarily Evangelist symbols; the guy's name may have been
Mark John ;-))
If you find out anything definitive, please keep us "posted."
MG
>From: CARLOS <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: [M-R] Query: Abbot and Evangelists?
>Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:22:48 +0200
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>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Thanks a lot for your much valuable references and suggestions!
>
>Tha capital is attached to the south wall of this (tiny) church. In
>front of it there is another intriguing capital which I have
>identified as an iamge of the Peridexion tree (btw, thanks to I. Dines
>for help in this matter!). Since I think that this Physiologus-capital
>must be inspired by a text and not an image, I propose that the carver
>(or, better, his mentor) knew some edition of the Physiologus. Close
>to the church there are two monasteries. I suggest that at least one
>of them owned such text in its Library. This relationship could
>explain the figure of the blessing abbot, but the significance of the
>Evangelists symbols escapes to me.
>
>See "Un eco del Fisiólogo en Santo Tomé Vello de Maside", Anuario
>Brigantino, 2005 (forthcoming)
>
>
>Carlos
>
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