medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 02/08/2012 16:15, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: Anne Willis<[log in to unmask]>
>>
>> 2 - Summoning St Michael - Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire; David
>> Stocker and Paul Everson; Oxbow books, 2006. ISBN 184217 123 1. (I've
>> only just come across this, not read it, but it includes an interesting
>> looking chapter: 'Symbols of the Psychopomp; a motivation for tower
>> building?'
>
> what on earth is "Psychopomp"?
>
> some sort of technical term in architecture?
Theology, more likely - renouncing the Devil and all his pomps?
(Did we ever decide what "pomps" were?)
John Briggs
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