Verse inscriptions in stone appeared in abundance on the fa¦ades of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Marking the place where medieval worshippers were transported from secular to sacred space, portal verse inscriptions provide important, and often overlooked, insights into the dynamic function of the portals and their art.The Allegory of the Church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists. An exemplary work of interdisciplinary scholarship, The Allegory of the Church includes a detailed catalogue of Romanesque verse inscriptions.

The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions

Kendall, Calvin

Literature & Fiction

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

<p>A collection of 10 essays on `The legacy of Sutton Hoo' emerging from a conference organized by the University of Minnesota in 1989. Contributors include: Alan Stahl (the Sutton Hoo coin parcel) ; Edward Schoenfield and Jana Schulman (an economic assessment) ; Roberta Frank, Robert Creed (Beowulf and Sutton Hoo) ; Simon Keynes (Raedwald the Bretwalda) ; Wesley Stevens (sidereal time in Anglo-Saxon England) ; Else Roesdahl (princely burial in Scandinavia) ; Henrik Jansen (the archaeology of Danish commercial centres) ; Martin Carver (the future of Sutton Hoo) .</p>

Voyage To The Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo (Volume 5) (Medieval Cultures)

History

Ancient Civilizations

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Verse inscriptions in stone appeared in abundance on the façades of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Marking the place where medieval worshippers were transported from secular to sacred space, portal verse inscriptions provide important, and often overlooked, insights into the dynamic function of the portals and their art. The Allegory of the Church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists. An exemplary work of interdisciplinary scholarship, The Allegory of the Church includes a detailed catalogue of Romanesque verse inscriptions.

The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions (Heritage)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

University of Toronto Press

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