medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> Medieval roots are certainly apparent, but the early-modern church also
pruned a good deal of the wilder medieval foliage.
we might almost say that the Garden had become more than somewhat Overgrown,
if not completely Gone to Seed.
the Gardener seems to have gone on a long vacation (or nap), and such events
as the great Council held at Constance failed in its attempt to call him (or
her) back from the beach (or dreamland).
the whole thing was just running on Auto Pilot, majestically continuing on
course, ever more Barnacle-Ridden and Top Heavy, sinking deeper into the
ever-increasing Swells of the approaching Storm.
with all Lights still blazing, however, as brightly as ever... late middlevil
ecclesiastical art is Nothing, if not Spectacularly Illuminating.
>The result, at least as far as the physical fabric of medieval churches is
concerned, is that we now take as "medieval" what is actually a
reformed early-modern version of "medieval".
sometimes with a thick veneer of 19th c. medievalizing applied to both its
fabric and to our consciousness.
>The historiographic aspect of this "transition or transformation" needs to be
given far more attention than it has had heretofore.
the main thing is to keep a good Stock of Metaphors handy for the Mixing.
c
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