medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Katherine French <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>If you are at all interested in England you might want to check Eamon
Duffy's Stripping of the Altars.
thanks, Katherine (and my apologies for sending that overly-informal last
message to the list -it was intended for Jim personally).
i've seen this book cited enough times that i really must have a look at it
some day soon.
>He has a nice discussion of relics and pilgrimages that women took either to
promote fertility or to foster safe delivery. His discussion is probably not
focused on aristocratic women, but some of the relics, would have been
accessable only to the rather well off.
yes.
i'm going on the working theory that, at the period of my earliest extant
Chartres badges
http://www.ariadne.org/centrechartraine/badges/newbadges.html
(late 12th - early 13th cc ??) the pilgrimage --like all pilgrimages-- was de
facto restricted to "the rather well off."
later, with the growth of towns and the rise in prosperity generally, the
situation would have been considerably different; though, even then, the great
mass of the peasant population were still pretty much stuck on (and to) the
land, i should imagine.
i assume that Duffy is dealing with late M.A.+ material, which i take to be
perhaps reflective of a social, economic and psychical milieu substantially
different from the one prevailing in the earlier period.
that's the theory, anyway.
best from here,
christopher
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