One solution to problems of Cate's sort is to create an account on Flickr.com and to post the photograph there. Once it's up, share the link with the list (or with whomever).

Here's a view (at least eight years old) from the gothic nave of the église Ste.-Radegonde in Poitiers into its romanesque choir, including a bit of the entrance to the crypt:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5467470&size=lg

Four "arounders" (panoramas) of the interior:

http://mappinggothic.org/building/1331/nodes

Some views of Radegund's tomb in the crypt:

http://enflanant.hautetfort.com/media/02/00/1851167911.JPG

http://tinyurl.com/pnflzwb

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Sainte-Radegonde1.jpg

Some period-pertinent images of St. Radegund:

a) as depicted in scenes from an illuminated, late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of her Vita by St. Venantius Fortunatus (Poitiers, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 250):

1) ten scenes (on seven pages):
http://tinyurl.com/nwltzf7
2) two more scenes:
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/broken_news/kupfer2.html
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/broken_news/kupfer3.html

b) as portrayed in a twelfth-century roof boss from the collégiale Saint-Mexme in Chinon, on display in the museum of the relatively nearby chapelle Sainte-Radégonde in the same city:
http://a407.idata.over-blog.com/500x375/4/06/24/81/Chinon/DSCF5114.JPG
http://p8.storage.canalblog.com/80/29/460923/79733128_o.jpg

c) as depicted in an illuminated initial "I" in an earlier twelfth-century _Vitae sanctorum_ from Cîteaux (betw. 1101-1133; Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, ms. 641, fol. 11r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_094797-p.jpg

d) as depicted in an illuminated initial "R" in a mid-thirteenth-century gradual for the Use of the abbey of Fontevrault (ca. 1250-1260; Limoges, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2, fol. 169v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht1/IRHT_043522-p.jpg

e) as portrayed on the great seal of the priory of St Radegund in Cambridge, in use from the mid-thirteenth- through the late fifteenth-centuries:
http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/1-7women.png
A larger view may be found at Arthur Gray, _The Priory of Saint Radegund, Cambridge_ (Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1898), opposite p. 1:
http://tinyurl.com/q7czlq3

f) as depicted (at right; at left, St. Gregory the Great) in an earlier fourteenth-century window (ca. 1340) in the entrance hall -- an enclosed porch -- in the Basilika Mariä Himmelfahrt at Gurk:
http://www.burgenseite.com/glas/gurk_glas_1.jpg

g) as depicted (with a praying donor) in an initial "A" at the beginning of a fifteenth-century copy of a _Vie de sainte Radegonde_ (Rouen, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1436, fol. 1r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_101422-p.jpg

h) as depicted in the early fifteenth-century Hours of René of Anjou (ca. 1405-1410; London, BL, Egerton MS 1070, fol. 98v):
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_1070_f098v

i) as depicted in an early sixteenth-century book of hours for the Use of Rome (ca. 1510; Tours, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 2104, fol. 179r):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_051243-p.jpg

Best,
John Dillon

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I have a photograph of the interior of the church of St Radegunde, an attractive early Gothic building, built on the site of the original church in which Radegonde was buried. In the photo you can see the entrance to the crypt in which the tomb of Radegonde still contains some relics.

I don’t know if it’s ok to attach a photo to an email to the whole group, so if anyone would like to see it I can email a copy to them. It’s not a great photo - just one I took on my phone when we were visiting Poitiers (a town I would highly recommend for a visit!) earlier in the summer

best wishes

Cate

Cate Gunn
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On 14 Aug 2015, at 02:50, Heintzelman, Matthew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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https://www.facebook.com/604882972899463/photos/a.624764970911263.1073741830.604882972899463/856176131103478/?type=1&theater

“Radegund was one of Clotaire I’s six wives or concubines (the other five being Guntheuca who was the widow of his brother Chlodomer, Chunsina, Ingund, Ingund’s sister Aregund and Wuldetrada the widow of Clotaire's grand-nephew Theudebald). She bore him no children. By 550 Radegund's brother was the last surviving male member of the Thuringian royal family. Chlothar had him murdered. She fled the court and sought the protection of the Church, persuading the bishop of Noyon to appoint her a deaconess; founding the monastery of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers circa 560.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radegund)

Peace,

Matt H.