medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
sorry for the confusion --amend my remarks as follows:
From: Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]>
> if, as you say, Paul, the "joined hands" replaced the "orans" in the 12th c.
(and i can't think of any earlier representations of it, off the top of my
head, though Le Goff [see below] seems to imply that it
i.e., the vassalage gesture, not the prayer gesture
>may have gone back to even the 8th c.), it seems to me to be too much of a
coincidence to say that the vassalage gesture --which was coming into such
prominence at precisely the same time-- had no influence on the spiffy new
prayer gesture.
c
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