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Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy

  • ISBN-13: 9780271059730
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Nino Zchomelidse
  • Price: AUD $184.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2014
  • Format: Hardback 308 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Photography & photographs [AJ]
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Describes the creation, function, and change in significance of liturgical furnishings and manuscripts in southern Italy from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Staging the Logos: The Ambo in the Medieval Mediterranean

2 Unfurling the Logos: The Exultet Rolls of South Italy

3 Liturgical Change and the Double Stage

4 Trees of Light: Exegesis and Liturgy in the Context of the Easter Candlestick

5 Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the Angevin Kingdom

6 The Saint and His City: Hagiography, Relics, and the Panels of Santa Restituta in Naples

Epilogue: Imitatio Christi and Civic Identity in Angevin Gaeta

Appendixes

Iconographic Indexes

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“[Nino Zchomelidse] is to be thanked for producing a work which is both stimulating and provocative.”

—Valentino Pace, Burlington Magazine

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