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.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-378) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 246/.951822/09409021
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e------
- ISBN
- 9781442680487 0802042627
- LCCN
- NA4950
- LCCN Item number
- K45 1998eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xv, 401 p., [36] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600519 (OCoLC)752581596 (CaOOCEL)417793
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- List of Illustrations, Text Figures, and Maps 10
- Preface 12
- Part One: The Making of Meaning 18
- 1. The Allegory of the Church 20
- Part Two: The Early History of Christian Verse Inscriptions 36
- 2. Constantine and the Mosaics of Rome 38
- 3. Portal Inscriptions, Liminal Transformation, and the Creation of Sacred Space 50
- Part Three: Visions and Voices: Allegorizing the Romanesque Church 66
- 4. 'I am the door': Typological Allegory and the Design of the Romanesque Portal 68
- 5. The Voice of Allegory: Language and Form in Romanesque Verse Inscriptions 86
- 6. The Portal as Christ: Personification or Real Presence? 97
- 7. Portal Inscriptions as 'Performatives' 109
- 8. Conditional Transcendence: Movement between the Literal and Spiritual Levels of the Allegory of the Church 116
- 9. Anagogical Allegory and Imagery: Gate of Heaven, Gate of Life, Fountain of Life 126
- 10. Moral Allegory: Admonitory and Pax Portals and the Tympanum of Jaca 139
- 11. Visions of Allegory: The Archivolts of Aquitaine 156
- Part Four: Secular Transformations 170
- 12. The Search for the New: Politics, Pilgrimage, and Economics 172
- 13. Artists and the Pursuit of Fame 188
- 14. Allegory Undone: Patronage and the Shift to Representational Symbolism 242
- Catalogue of Romanesque Verse Inscriptions 254
- Notes 358
- Bibliography of Works Cited 412
- Index 436
- A 436
- B 438
- C 439
- D 441
- E 441
- F 442
- G 442
- H 443
- I 444
- J 444
- K 445
- L 445
- M 446
- N 447
- O 447
- P 447
- Q 449
- R 449
- S 452
- T 456
- U 456
- V 457
- W 457
- X 458
- Z 458
- Illustrations 202
