Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral

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BRILL, 2004 M01 1 - 260 páginas
This interdisciplinary study interprets the façade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century English Church liturgy and politics. Carolyn Malone posits that architectural motifs, as signs, complemented not only the façade s sculptural program of the Church Triumphant but also its use during liturgical processions. Interpreted as an ideological construct, the façade s design is related to theological change, liturgical innovation and political strategy, as well as to the conjuncture of several major historical and cultural events of the 1220s. As part of the Church s empowering ritual, the façade expressed the reforming views of the Fourth Lateran Council, promoted Wells as the seat the diocese and proclaimed the covenant between Church and State in England following Magna Carta.

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Introduction
1
THE BISHOPS HOMILY AND THE MASTER MASONS RESPONSE
15
Chapter Two The Church Triumphant
43
Chapter Three The Production of Signs
85
the english church of the 1220s
129
ChapterFour LiturgicalPractice
139
Processions
149
ChapterFive EucharisticPractice
158
Sacerdotium and Regnum
200
Conclusion
225
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Carolyn Marino Malone, Ph.D. (1973), History of Art and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor in the History of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She has published on other English topics and Saint-Bénigne in Dijon, France.

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