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The allegory of the Church : romanesque portals and their verse inscriptions /
The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations, Text Figures, and Maps""; ""Preface""; ""Part One: The Making of Meaning""; ""1. The Allegory of the Church""; ""Part Two: The Early History of Christian Verse Inscriptions""; ""2. Constantine and the Mosaics of Rome""; ""3. Portal Inscriptions, Liminal Transformation, and the Creation of Sacred Space""; ""Part Three: Visions and Voices: Allegorizing the Romanesque Church""; ""4. 'I am the door': Typological Allegory and the Design of the Romanesque Portal""; ""5. The Voice of Allegory: Language and Form in Romanesque Verse Inscriptions""
- ""6. The Portal as Christ: Personification or Real Presence?""""7. Portal Inscriptions as 'Performatives'""; ""8. Conditional Transcendence: Movement between the Literal and Spiritual Levels of the Allegory of the Church""; ""9. Anagogical Allegory and Imagery: Gate of Heaven, Gate of Life, Fountain of Life""; ""10. Moral Allegory: Admonitory and Pax Portals and the Tympanum of Jaca""; ""11. Visions of Allegory: The Archivolts of Aquitaine""; ""Part Four: Secular Transformations""; ""12. The Search for the New: Politics, Pilgrimage, and Economics""; ""13. Artists and the Pursuit of Fame""
- ""14. Allegory Undone: Patronage and the Shift to Representational Symbolism""""Catalogue of Romanesque Verse Inscriptions""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography of Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""