medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:39 AM, Jon Cannon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> Liking, as I do the cuts of both your jibs, I can only add in
> response that (for example) Bede in his accounts of the English
> Church and People and Lives of diverse saints; and Eddius Stephanus
> in his life of Wilfrid; are by the by rather specific about church
> architecture, about paintings, about glass - but they don't mention
> standalone figure sculpture.
>
> ... do they mention standlone crosses??...
>
> Jon: sitting here in Wessex, on the fence.
No, they don't, Jon. Which goes to make Crockett's point, that
"argumentum ex silentio" is not a reliable one.
GHB
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