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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Your rephrasing is much better! Though it brings up another question, namely whether early Christians who used crosses as amulets also had other kinds of amulets. . . Meg ________________________________ From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture on behalf of Dr Jim Bugslag Sent: Sun 10.1.2010 20:57 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [M-R] Resurrection Bodies/Cross medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture I suspect that this question should be rephrased: do we know when Christians began to assimilate the practice of using amulets? In the late 2nd century, Clement, the Bishop of Alexandria, recommends devices that Christians should carve on their rings, including doves, ships and anchors - that's pretty amuletic. Crosses scratched in cemeteries also begin to appear in the 2nd century, I believe. On a later phase of this usage, see Henry Maguire, The Icons of their Bodies: Saints and their Images in Byzantium (1996). Cheers, Jim Marjorie Greene wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > "Do we know when amulets (crosses or otherwise) are first used?" > > An interesting question and one I cannot answer. It would be > interesting to find the earliest example of a cleric wearing a > pectoral cross. I suspect, but have no evidence, that they started the > practice, which then trickled down to the laity. > I hope you get an authoritative response. > MG > > Marjorie Greene > http://medrelart.shutterfly.com/ > > --- On *Mon, 1/11/10, Cormack, Margaret Jean /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote: > > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it > to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the > message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order > to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] For further information, > visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html