medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Here's a another reference which I haven't been able to track down, but
might be useful for this thread;
Müller, Iso 'Frauen rechts, Männer links: historische Platzverteilung in
der Kirche' Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, 57 (1961), 65-81
I got it from
Randolph, Adrian 'Regarding Women in Sacred Space' in Geraldine A. Johnson
and Sara F. Matthews Grieco (eds), Picturing Women in Renaissance and
Baroque Italy (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University, 1997), 17-40
while looking for stuff about seating in church (somewhere in this list's
archive you'll find a thread on seating which has a certain amount of
overlap with this one
Laura
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bugslag" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 27 September 2005 20:17
Subject: (Fwd) Re: [M-R] the north door
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> I sent this recenty, apparently while the list was in glitch-mode. Here
> it is again.
>
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] the north door
> Date sent: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 13:48:07 -0500
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>
>
>> At least in Scandinavian churches, there were up till about 1250 in
>> almost every church a north
>> door and a south door, the north door for women, the south door for men.
>> Inside the church, men
>> and women were not supposed to be together, but stay in the southern and
>> northern parts
>> respectively.
>
> Anders' very interesting reply to the question of how north doors were
> used points
> up a very pertinent aspect of the question: there is no one, European-wide
> answer.
> Considerable regional diversity exists, as far as doors are concerned.
> Many English
> churches, for example, have north porches, without a south door, e.g.
> Wells and
> Salisbury Cathedrals, which I mention because some excellent liturgical
> work has
> been done on how they were used, by Arnold Klukas and Peter Draper
> respectively.
> But the use of medieval church doors, in general, has received
> surprisingly little
> attention. For a useful exception, see Barbara Diemling, "Le portail
> d'eglise au
> Moyen Age et sa signification juridique historique," in Rolf Toman, L'art
> roman
> (Konemann, 1997), which also exists in German and English editions, I
> believe.
> One work which may, possibly, be of help in answering your question (but
> which I've
> never got around to reading, despite the fact that it is, I believe,
> available over the
> internet on the Gallica site), is l'abbe J.-B. Thiers, _Dissertation sur
> les Porches des
> eglises dans laquelle on fait voir les diuers usages ausquels ils sont
> destinez; que
> ce sont des Lieux Saints et dignes de la veneration des Fideles; Et qu'il
> n'est pas
> permis d'y vendre aucunes marchandise, non pas mesme celles qui peuvent
> servir
> a la piete (Orleans, 1679).
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
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