medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;">On the 12th-century Tournai marble font at East Meon in Hampshire the Expulsion scene shows the angel with the flaming sword driving Adam &amp; Eve from<br>what is recognisably a city - see my image on Flickr here:<br><br>

<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/14533519943<br><br>Learned ones, do you know of any other examples of this and can you suggest the origin of this iconographical peculiarity?<br><br>Gordon Plumb<br></p>

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