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

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Text Figures, and Maps -- Preface -- Part One: The Making of Meaning -- 1. The Allegory of the Church -- Part Two: The Early History of Christian Verse Inscriptions -- 2. Constantine and the Mosaics of Rome -- 3. Portal Inscriptions, Liminal Transformation, and the Creation of Sacred Space -- Part Three: Visions and Voices: Allegorizing the Romanesque Church -- 4. 'I am the door': Typological Allegory and the Design of the Romanesque Portal -- 5. The Voice of Allegory: Language and Form in Romanesque Verse Inscriptions -- 6. The Portal as Christ: Personification or Real Presence? -- 7. Portal Inscriptions as 'Performatives' -- 8. Conditional Transcendence: Movement between the Literal and Spiritual Levels of the Allegory of the Church -- 9. Anagogical Allegory and Imagery: Gate of Heaven, Gate of Life, Fountain of Life -- 10. Moral Allegory: Admonitory and Pax Portals and the Tympanum of Jaca -- 11. Visions of Allegory: The Archivolts of Aquitaine -- Part Four: Secular Transformations -- 12. The Search for the New: Politics, Pilgrimage, and Economics -- 13. Artists and the Pursuit of Fame -- 14. Allegory Undone: Patronage and the Shift to Representational Symbolism -- Catalogue of Romanesque Verse Inscriptions -- Notes -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Illustrations.

The Allegory of the Churchis 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.