Ladder of shadows : reflecting on medieval vestige in Provence and Languedoc / Gustaf Sobin ; foreword by Michael Ignatieff.
Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene--these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Apt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest |g 5 -- |t Desolate Treasure |g 15 -- |t Crypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I |g 20 -- |t Terra Sigillata |g 29 -- |t Relics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current |g 35 -- |t Venus Disfigured |g 44 -- |t The Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez |g 52 -- |t The Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II |g 59 -- |t City of God |g 65 -- |t Laying the Dragon Low |g 76 -- |t The Dark Ages: A History of Omissions |g 85 -- |t The Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe |g 92 -- |t The Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus |g 99 -- |t Celestial Paradigms |g 107 -- |t Vaulting the Nave |g 113 -- |t The Dome: Architecture as Antecedent |g 120 -- |t Classical Roots, Evangelical Branches |g 126 -- |t Vanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof |g 136 -- |t Incastellamento: Perching the Village, I |g 143 -- |t Incastellamento: Perching the Village, II (The Circulades of Languedoc) |g 153 -- |t Faja Oscura |g 163 -- |t Psalmodi |g 169 -- |t The Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction |g 175 -- |t Mary Magdalene the Odoriferous |g 184 -- |t The Death of Genesis |g 196. |
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