Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 236 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0520253345
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0520942418
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0520253353
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9780520253346
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9780520942417
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9780520253353
Serie:
An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities
Inhalt:
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 of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative. A companion volume to his acclaimed Luminous Debris, Ladder of Shadows picks up where the former left off: with late antiquity, covering a period from roughly the third to the thirteenth century. Here Sobin offers brilliant readings of late Roman and
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9786612772436
Weitere Ausg.:
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Sprache:
Englisch
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