Ladder of shadows : reflecting on medieval vestige in Provence and Languedoc /

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Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene--these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sobin, Gustaf
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, Ã2009.
Colección:Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities.
Temas:
Archaeology and history > France, Southern.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Antiquities
Archaeology and history
Civilization
France, Southern > Antiquities.
France, Southern > Civilization.
Southern France
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Apt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest 5
  • Desolate Treasure 15
  • Crypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I 20
  • Terra Sigillata 29
  • Relics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current 35
  • Venus Disfigured 44
  • The Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez 52
  • The Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II 59
  • City of God 65
  • Laying the Dragon Low 76
  • The Dark Ages: A History of Omissions 85
  • The Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe 92
  • The Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus 99
  • Celestial Paradigms 107
  • Vaulting the Nave 113
  • The Dome: Architecture as Antecedent 120
  • Classical Roots, Evangelical Branches 126
  • Vanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof 136
  • Incastellamento: Perching the Village, I 143
  • Incastellamento: Perching the Village, II (The Circulades of Languedoc) 153
  • Faja Oscura 163
  • Psalmodi 169
  • The Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction 175
  • Mary Magdalene the Odoriferous 184
  • The Death of Genesis 196.

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