medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> -- it does make me wonder about the function of spaces such as the Holy
> Hole beneath the Winchester feretory platform. I've been in it and it
> would just be possible to curl up in there for a time, though a night
> would be uncomfy. I have to say, using strictly non-academic criteria,
> that I found the experience electrifying.
Jon,
There is a good treatment of the Holy Hole in John Crook, The Architectural Setting
of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-1200 (Oxford, 2000), pp.
218ff.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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