medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
---- Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>...in Europe, scant attention was paid by the Roman Catholic church to the
>> question of orientation - it wasn't considered necessary to point to the east
>> at all.
>
> mmmm.... my dim memory of a few hundred churches in France --big and small--
> is that the overwhelming majority are (at least roughly) "oriented."
Don't forget that I am talking here about post-Reformation churches (post-Counter Reformation, I suppose!)
John Briggs
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