Description |
1 online resource (281 p.) |
Contents |
Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- Part I: Screens and the Cult of St Thomas -- Introduction -- 1: Previous studies and the location of the finds -- The king reliefs -- Earlier scholarship -- Prior Chillenden's constructions -- Conclusion -- 2: Dating of the sculpture and architectural fragments -- Carving techniques -- Figurative sculpture -- Foliage decoration -- Architectural motifs -- Regional impact -- Conclusion -- 3: Christ Church, Canterbury (1170-1175) -- Becket's murder in the north arm of the transept |
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Analysis of Gervase's description -- Crossing of the western transept -- South arm of the transept -- North arm of the transept (the Martyrdom) -- Late twelfth-century alterations in the crossing -- Prior Odo (1168-1175) -- Pilgrimage (1171-1175) -- Conclusion -- 4: Reconstruction of the screens in the western transept -- The Martyrdom -- North-south partitioning screen and north screen -- East side of partitioning screen and north screen -- West side of partitioning screen -- Southern entrance to the tunnel -- Excavations -- South screen -- East side of the crossing -- Rood screen -- Conclusion |
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5: The quatrefoils: prophecy and the theology of redemption -- The gestures of the prophets -- The rood screen as a liturgical focus -- Prophetic testimony in images and texts -- Liturgical drama -- Ysagoge in Theologiam -- Inscribed images of prophets and liturgical texts -- The Incarnation: Advent and Christmas -- Mass at the Altar of the Holy Cross -- The Passion: Holy Week -- Conclusion -- 6: The roundels: the Church's Other -- Lions, demons, Jews and a pagan -- Synagoga -- The unbeliever -- Canterbury's Jewish community -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Plates, Reconstructions |
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Part II: Twelfth-Century Finds from the Perpendicular Great Cloister -- Introduction to the catalogue -- Catalogue -- A. Statue segments -- B. Quatrefoils -- C. Roundels -- D. Shaft-rings -- E. Arch elements -- Hood-moulds and head-stops -- Beaded hood-moulds -- Voussoirs -- F. String-course and related elements -- G. Capitals and base -- H. Purbeck elements -- Comparative charts with eimensions of the limetone finds -- Bibliography -- Index |
Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
Subject |
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 -- Art
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Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 -- Cult -- England -- Canterbury
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SUBJECT |
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. fast (OCoLC)fst00052328 |
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Canterbury Cathedral.
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SUBJECT |
Canterbury Cathedral. fast (OCoLC)fst00550506 |
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Sculpture, English -- England -- Canterbury -- 12th century -- Themes, motives
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Sculpture, Romanesque -- England -- Canterbury -- Themes, motives
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Stone carving -- England -- Canterbury -- Themes, motives
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Cults.
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Sculpture, Romanesque -- Themes, motives.
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Stone carving -- Themes, motives.
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England -- Canterbury.
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Genre/Form |
Art.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781789252330 |
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1789252334 |
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