A Heritage Of Holy Wood: The Legend Of The True Cross In Text And ImageBRILL, 1 de gen. 2004 - 527 pàgines In the fourth century the idea arose that the Cross on which Christ was crucified had been found by Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. Thus began a legend that would grow and flourish throughout the Middle Ages and cause the diffusion of countless splinters of holy wood. And where there is wood, there was once a tree. Could it be that the Cross was made from that most noble species, the Tree of Life? So, gathering characters along the way, the legend evolved into a tale that stretches from the Creation to the End of Time. A Heritage of Holy Wood is the first reconstruction of the iconographic and literary tradition of the Legend of the True Cross. Its broad scope encompasses relic cults, pilgrimages, travellers' tales and the Tree of Life and involves Church Fathers, crusader kings, Teutonic Knights and mendicant orders, all of which influenced the legend's depiction from its earliest representation in manuscripts, reliquaries and altarpieces, to the great monumental cycles of the high Middle Ages. If the holy wood was the medium of medieval memory, A Heritage of Holy Wood reveals the growth rings of fifteen centuries of imagery. |
Continguts
Chapter Five From Paradise to Golgotha The Legend | 1 |
Chapter One Helena and the Jews The Legend | 15 |
Seth and the return to Paradise | 18 |
Chapter Two The Finding of the Cross in Carolingian | 54 |
Chapter Three Heraclius and the Persians The Legend | 133 |
Chapter Four The spreading of the Finding | 194 |
Chapter Six The monumental programmes of the Legend | 206 |
Tempzin and Marienwerder | 216 |
The Netherlands A periphery? | 263 |
406 | 447 |
Epilogue | 454 |
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Photographic Acknowledgements | 505 |
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A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image Barbara Baert Previsualització limitada - 2004 |
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14 September 15th century Abbey Adam alludes altarpiece Ambrose angel Berlin Bibliothèque BORGEHAMMAR Byzantine Cathedral centre chapel Chosroes Christ Christian Church of San cols Constantine Constantinople context cosmic croix Cross legend Cross reliquary Crucifixion crusaders cycle depicted emperor enamel Eusebius Exaltation feast Finding Franciscan Fresco gate Gellone Sacramentary Golgotha Helena Heraclius Holy Cross Holy Sepulchre Honorius of Autun iconography Inventio Inventio crucis J.W. DRIJVERS Jacobus Jacobus de Voragine Jerusalem Jewish Jews Judas Cyriacus Judas Cyriacus legend Legenda Aurea lignum liturgical Macarius manuscript Mary Medieval miniature Montegiorgio Mosan motif Museum nails Nuremberg Old Testament panel Paradise Paris Persian Piero della Francesca pilgrim Queen of Sheba refers relic reliquary saints San Francesco Santa Croce scene Seth Solomon Stavelot triptych symbol Temple Testing tion tradition trans tree True Cross twig typological vision Vita VOELKLE wall paintings Wiesendangen wood
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