Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of illustrations
  • Part I: Screens and the Cult of St Thomas
  • Introduction
  • 1: Previous studies and the location of the finds
  • The king reliefs
  • Earlier scholarship
  • Prior Chillenden's constructions
  • Conclusion
  • 2: Dating of the sculpture and architectural fragments
  • Carving techniques
  • Figurative sculpture
  • Foliage decoration
  • Architectural motifs
  • Regional impact
  • Conclusion
  • 3: Christ Church, Canterbury (1170-1175)
  • Becket's murder in the north arm of the transept
  • Analysis of Gervase's description
  • Crossing of the western transept
  • South arm of the transept
  • North arm of the transept (the Martyrdom)
  • Late twelfth-century alterations in the crossing
  • Prior Odo (1168-1175)
  • Pilgrimage (1171-1175)
  • Conclusion
  • 4: Reconstruction of the screens in the western transept
  • The Martyrdom
  • North-south partitioning screen and north screen
  • East side of partitioning screen and north screen
  • West side of partitioning screen
  • Southern entrance to the tunnel
  • Excavations
  • South screen
  • East side of the crossing
  • Rood screen
  • Conclusion
  • 5: The quatrefoils: prophecy and the theology of redemption
  • The gestures of the prophets
  • The rood screen as a liturgical focus
  • Prophetic testimony in images and texts
  • Liturgical drama
  • Ysagoge in Theologiam
  • Inscribed images of prophets and liturgical texts
  • The Incarnation: Advent and Christmas
  • Mass at the Altar of the Holy Cross
  • The Passion: Holy Week
  • Conclusion
  • 6: The roundels: the Church's Other
  • Lions, demons, Jews and a pagan
  • Synagoga
  • The unbeliever
  • Canterbury's Jewish community
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Plates, Reconstructions
  • Part II: Twelfth-Century Finds from the Perpendicular Great Cloister
  • Introduction to the catalogue
  • Catalogue
  • A. Statue segments
  • B. Quatrefoils
  • C. Roundels
  • D. Shaft-rings
  • E. Arch elements
  • Hood-moulds and head-stops
  • Beaded hood-moulds
  • Voussoirs
  • F. String-course and related elements
  • G. Capitals and base
  • H. Purbeck elements
  • Comparative charts with eimensions of the limetone finds
  • Bibliography
  • Index