Façade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13840-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malone, Carolyn Marino

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Façade and its Producers
2. The Church Triumphant
3. The Production of Signs
4. Liturgical Practice
5. Eucharistic Practice
6. Ideological Strategies

Conclusion

Plates

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.