Obsah:
  • 1. The Allegory of the Church
  • 2. Constantine and the Mosaics of Rome
  • 3. Portal Inscriptions, Liminal Transformation, and the Creation of Sacred Space
  • 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
  • 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