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Good old Skeat (can't be bothered to reach for the OED) says 'Pompe... Gk... a sending, escorting, a solemn procession'.
Graham
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Origin of church towers
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Stocker and Everson's thesis (from memory!) is that coffins lay overnight in the ground-floor tower room before the funeral service. The passing bell, summoning the Psychopomp (wonderful term - the role shared by Michael and Charon), was rung from bell chambers newly fashionable in the period and detectable where surviving by the diagnostic openings.
Graham
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Origin of church towers
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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?
c
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