The Gothic Screen : Space, Sculpture, and Community in the Cathedrals of France and Germany, ca.1200-1400


Jacqueline E. Jung
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
Omfang
1 online resource (328 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Screen as Structure; one The Choir Screen as Partition; Getting Past the Barrier; Before and Beyond the Gothic Screen: Interior Partitions and the Sanctification of Space; The Shapes of Screens in Gothic Churches; Fragmentation and Synthesis: The Choir Screens of Naumburg Cathedral; two The Choir Screen as Bridge; In medio ecclesiae: The Bivalent Body of Christ; In loco superiori: The Choir Screen as Stage; The Lower Screen and the Church of the Laity; Three The Choir Screen as Frame. - Jews, Apostles, and the Dispersed Responsibility for Christs Death at Naumburg CathedralJews and the Christian Self in the Gothic Cathedral; Six Nobles, Peasants, and the Vernacular Mode; Feasting with the Lord at Naumburg Cathedral; Court, Countryside, and Communication at Chartres Cathedral; Images in the Choir; The Language of Choir Screens; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. - The Altar in the Door: The Choir Screens Picture of Sacred SpaceThe Donors, the Doors, and the Crucifix: Moving Pictures at Naumburg Cathedral; Excursus: Architectural Pictures in Religious Space; Seeing through Screens: The Evidence from Paintings; Part II Sculpture on the Screen; four Women, Men, and the Social Order; Women, Men, and Access to the Sacred; Clergy, Laity, and the End of Time; Choir Screen Sculpture and the World Outside; FIVE Jews, Christians, and the Question of the Individual; Beyond the Pointed Hat: Anti-Jewish Polemic in Monumental Narrative Sculpture. - Reveals how Gothic choir screens, through their architecture and sculpture, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of community within the Christian church.
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1107022959. - 9781107022959

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