Façade As Spectacle : Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I THE BISHOP'S HOMILY AND THE MASTER MASON'S RESPONSE -- Chapter One. The Façade and its Producers -- Date of Construction -- Adam Lock -- Jocelin -- Chapter Two. The Church Triumphant -- The Coronation of the Virgin -- The Quatrefoils -- The Niches -- The Resurrection Frieze -- Eschatology and Ecclesiology -- Chapter Three. The Production of Signs -- The Heavenly Jerusalem -- The Gabled Niche -- The Quatrefoil -- Elias of Dereham and the Bishops -- A Choir-Screen Replica -- PART II THE ENGLISH CHURCH OF THE 1220S -- Chapter Four. Liturgical Practice -- Processions -- Vestments -- Chapter Five. Eucharistic Practice -- Corpus Mysticum -- The City of Saints -- The Heavenly Mass -- The Incarnation -- The Final Easter -- Visio Pacis -- New Sacramental Decrees -- Chapter Six. Ideological Strategies -- Diocesan Power -- Sacerdotium and Regnum -- A Rhetoric of Sacred Ritual -- Conclusion -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Index -- STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION TRADITIONS.

This interdisciplinary study interprets the façade of Wells Cathedral as an integral part of thirteenth-century Church liturgy and politics. The façade promoted the aims of the church of Wells, the Fourth Lateran Council, and the English Church and State following Magna Carta.

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