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And not just in antiquity: in Wales there are documented medieval- and early
modern examples of sleeping in churches or church-yards in the hope of
experiencing revelations, or of acquiring the gift of poetic inspiration.
M Paul Bryant-Quinn
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Is there any place in this development for dreams discussed in the Bible?
Tom Izbicki
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From: Paul Chandler <[log in to unmask]>
> Perhaps "night-watching in porches" is related to the practice of
incubation, or passing the night at (or on or under or in) the shrine of
a saint in hope of healing. The roots of the practice were in pagan
antiquity, where sleeping at shrines (especially of Asclepius but also
of others) was associated with the search for revelatory dreams and
their interpretation as well as with healing (so "night-sleeping in
porches" might really be expected).
> Someone may know of a literature on the subject, though I recall having
seen
only occasional references....
here's another:
in the crypt of the cathedral of Chartres there was a well with
thaumaturgical
properties.
"There are no [surviving] references to pilgrims drinking water from the
well
and no evidence of ampullae, which were commonly used to contain holy water
from pilgrimage sites. Rather, the sick slept in the crypt, in proximity to
the Puits des Saints-Forts, for nine nights in the hopes of a cure. It,
thus,
rather seems to have functioned as a thaumaturgical place of martyrdom."
--Jim Bugslag, "Pilgrimage to Chartres: The Visual Evidence" in Sarah Blick
and Rita Tekippe, eds, _Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in
Northern Europe and the British Isles._ Leiden: Brill, 2005.
citing (n.28) "the _Vieille Chronique_ of 1389, in Eugène de Lépinois and
Lucien Merlet, eds, Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres, I (Chartres:
Garnier, 1862), p. 58."
c
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