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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture From: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]> > Health & fitness - she'll love that! as well she should. receiving that kind of Validation of one's Career is a goal toward which every young person should strive. i, myself, have no greater wish than to find, when i grow up, that one (or more!) of my own books has risen to the prestidigetatious level of being classified by the googleistical bibliophileiacs in their esteamed "Health & Fitness" section, so that it (/they) might be made available (hopefully in a "snippet view") to any Moron on the planet with access to The Innernets. c > -----Original Message----- > From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher Crockett > Sent: 28 September 2011 14:20 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [M-R] Feasts and Saints of the Day: Sep 26 > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > From: Madeleine Gray <[log in to unmask]> > > > I think Miranda Aldhouse-Green also mentions the practice in Pilgrims in > Stone, her study of fonts Sequanae (a Gallo-Roman shrine which was > Christianised by the C6). > > from Worldcat.org: > > Miranda J. [Aldhouse-]Green, et al. > Pilgrims in stone: stone images from the Gallo-Roman sanctuary of Fontes > Sequanae > > Oxford: Archaeopress, 1999. > > BAR international series, 754. > 172pp. > > "available" in one of those wretched "snippet views" from the Googlementarians > (filed under "Health & Fitness," of course): > > http://books.google.com/books?id=Q_MhAQAAIAAJ&q=intitle:Pilgrims+intitle:in+intitle:stone+intitle:stone+intitle:images&dq=intitle:Pilgrims+intitle:in+intitle:stone+intitle:stone+intitle:images&hl=en&ei=yByDTqaeDcjz0gHyqpB6&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAA > > > with a publisher's blurb: > > The site at Fontes Sequanae, near Dijon in Burgundy, is notable for its rich > imagery in wood and stone, and its small votive offerings in bronze. This book > is a study of stone pilgrim imagery from the Gallo-Roman shrine to Sequanae, > set in the wider context of a large number of curative cult-sites in Roman > Gaul. The author looks at the religious and social significance of this type > of iconography and of the sanctuaries in general. > > "search inside" for "incubation" yields one hit (p. 72): > > "The focal point of the [Ancient] pilgrim's visit was the nocturnal > 'incubation,' in which the supplicant slept in a special dormitory or > _abaton_, in the expectation of a visitation from Asklepios, who would appear > in a vision or dream to dispense medicine, advice or carry out surgery." > > "Your search - chartres - did not match any documents." > > shows how much she knows. > > c > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html