medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You might find some useful pointers in Pamela Tudor-Craig, 'The Iconography
of Wisdom and the Frontispiece to the Bible Historiale, British Library Add
Ms 18856' in *The Church and Learning in Later Medieval Society: essays in
honour of RB Dobson. Proceedings of the 1999 Harlaxton Symposium*, ed CM
Barron & J Stratford, (Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2002), pp110-27
Best
Rosemary Hayes
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Subject: [M-R] 'seven lamps of wisdom'
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> I'm preparing to give a paper on Lady Chapels, and have a few queries I
> can't quite get a definitive answer on.
>
> Here's one that's had me curious for years: somewhere between 1218 and
> 1222, the Bishop of Bath & Wells lent a master mason to St Augustine's
> Abbey, Bristol to 'hew out the Seven Lamps of Wisdom's House'. The
> building that resulted was a Lady Chapel.
>
> What does 'Seven Lamps of Wisdom' mean to list members? Why might a
> bishop use the phrase to refer to a Lady Chapel? Is there a connection
> with the Seven Wise [necessarily paired with Foolish equivalents?]
> Virgins who sometimes decorated Lady Chapels (Lichfield) and the
> entrances of Marian-related buildings (Salisbury?).
>
> Apologies, I do not have the original Latin for the phrase to hand.
>
>
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> culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim
> Bugslag
> Sent: 01 February 2006 19:08
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] Touching sacred objects
>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
>> > Have you ever wondered why a cathedral has a nave, and what that was
> used
>> for?
>>
>>
>> ideological reasons aside, i always assumed that it was to hold great
> masses
>> of folk, who assembled there especially on special feast days.
>
> One should not underestimate the importance of processions in naves.
> Particularly
> in monastic churches which, unlike cathedrals, were not absolutely
> required by
> definition to accommodate a lay congregation. There are, in particular,
> some quite
> long Cistercian naves, which would specifically not have had to
> accommodate any
> lay use. There are, I believe, in the pavement of the nave at Fountains
> in Yorkshire
> the remains of markers to aid the monks in stopping the procession
> before the rood
> screen before re-entering the choir. As for parochial involvement in
> monastic
> churches, I am more familiar with this from English examples, but there
> certainly
> was a movement in the later Middle Ages to provide the parish with a
> separate
> church, or at least a chapel attached to the outer nave wall, in order
> to separate
> parochial and monastic spaces, but if Saint-Hilaire is 12th-century in
> origin, this
> would be substantially earlier than any example I know of in England.
> Surely the
> cartulary of Saint-Pierre would be helpful in determining whether there
> was a parish
> attached to the abbey church.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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