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Good point Karl - I'd forgotten about the ladder motif and this image!
Very appropriate for virtues and vices! cheers, Harriet.
Quoting Brunner Karl <[log in to unmask]>:
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> To this, see the heavenly ladders at
> http://elbanet.ethz.ch/wikifarm/allegorieseminar/index.php?
> n=Main.LeiternUndStufen ,
> especially Herrads of Hohenberg, the third one!
> yours
> Karl
>
> Am 3. Jul.2007 um 19:34 Uhr schrieb Diana Wright:
>
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>> This sounds close to the image of the ladder in this wonderful icon
>> from Sinai.
>> http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/icons_sinai/images/
>> heavenly_ladder.jpg
>> The angles and the saved are watching the demons snatch down the
>> undeserving. I am not sure about the theology represented here but
>> I have always found the demons rather charming. A contemporary
>> saints' life refers to "demons in the form of rock wasps."
>>
>> DW
>>
>>
>> Catherine Gunn wrote:
>>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>>> Dear friends
>>>
>>> In a late 12^th century English dialogue I’m reading [Vices and
>>> Virtues] there’s a reference to cursed spirits (werewede gostes)
>>> waiting for souls above the welkin (wolkne) after death – any
>>> souls that still have their sins upon them will be taken into pain
>>> to pay the penalty for them – Quia nullum malum inpunitum.
>>>
>>> If anyone has come across a similar reference to this particular
>>> view of the cosmology – demons hanging around in the clouds –
>>> please let me know,
>>>
>>> thanks, Cate
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