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Author Marino Malone, Carolyn

Title Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury Cathedral and the Cult of Thomas Becket
Published Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2019

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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
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
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
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
Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170 -- Cult -- England -- Canterbury
SUBJECT Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170. fast (OCoLC)fst00052328
Subject Canterbury Cathedral.
SUBJECT Canterbury Cathedral. fast (OCoLC)fst00550506
Subject Sculpture, English -- England -- Canterbury -- 12th century -- Themes, motives
Sculpture, Romanesque -- England -- Canterbury -- Themes, motives
Stone carving -- England -- Canterbury -- Themes, motives
Cults.
Sculpture, Romanesque -- Themes, motives.
Stone carving -- Themes, motives.
England -- Canterbury.
Genre/Form Art.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781789252330
1789252334