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Medieval allegory and the building of the new Jerusalem
- Title
- Medieval allegory and the building of the new Jerusalem / Ann R. Meyer.
- Author
- Meyer, Ann R. (Ann Raftery), 1963-
- Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- x, 214 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This book investigates the concept of the New Jerusalem, the City of God, as an architectural ideal during the Middle Ages, and the way in which it is represented allegorically in patristic writings, liturgy, building, and later literature. The author begins by examining its conceptual foundations in such sources as the Hebrew Bible, Bede's exegesis, the religious philosophy of Plotinus, and Augustine's theology. She then explores the influence and the expression of the New Jerusalem in liturgy and architecture, using the twelfth-century remodelling of the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its dedication liturgy to show how the building serves as an eschatological and apocalyptic landscape. The chantry movement in late medieval England is situated in this context, and leads to a demonstration of the movement's associations with the highly-wrought poem Pearl and its companion poems; the book analyses Pearl as medieval architecture, offering fresh perspectives on its elaborate construction and historical context."--Jacket
- Subject
- Église abbatiale de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France)
- Eglise abbatiale de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France)
- Pearl (Middle English poem)
- Europa
- 600-1500
- Architecture, Medieval
- Allegory
- Chantries
- chantries
- 21.70 religious architecture
- Architektur
- Himmlisches Jerusalem
- Symbolik
- Bouwkunst
- Allegorieën
- Geschichte 500-1500
- Jerusalem > In Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Middle East > Jerusalem
- Jerusalem (Israel) > In Christianity > Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Genre/Form
- Allegories.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Philosophical and Theological Foundations -- Foundations I: Plotinus' Screen of Beauty -- Foundations II: Augustine's City of God -- Liturgy and Architecture -- Liturgy at St.-Denis and the Apocalyptic Eschatology of High Gothic -- The Chantry Movement: An Intimate Art of the Medieval New Jerusalem -- Poetry -- Taking Allegory Seriously: Ornament as Invitation in Pearl -- 'Pe nwe cyte o Jerusalem": Pearl as Medieval Architecture.
- ISBN
- 0859917967
- 9780859917964
- LCCN
- 2003009644
- OCLC
- ocm52160082
- 52160082
- SCSB-1321537
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library