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From: Jo Ann McNamara <[log in to unmask]>
> Actually, it all seems perfectly logical to me. The insulted part of the
mutilated body is, of course, emblematic of the sacrifice the saint has made.
But the saint herself is whole in whatever form saints take while awaiting the
final resurrection of the body.
> Jo Ann
yes, i meant "logical" from the point of view of Anatomical Correctness, a
criterion which is an artifact of our own, Mentally Sclarotic Age, totally
alien to the more Elastic and Imaginative minds of the Middlevils.
c
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> From: "Christopher Crockett" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [M-R] Odd Saints
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Madeleine Gray wrote:
> > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> > > culture
> and the statue of St Winifred in Westminster Abbey has her with her head on
> but the decapitated head on a plinth by her feet
>
> > Very usual in Orthodox representations of John the Baptist.
>
> > http://zograph.hit.bg/icons/13.jpg
> > http://www.coptic.net/pictures/Icon.StJohnTheBaptist.gif
>
>
> yes, it has nothing to do with "logic".
>
> the head on the plate --like the scruffy appearance and the hair shirt--
was
> one of the Saint's "attributes", characteristic "signs" by which he (or
she)
> might be easily recognized.
>
> c
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