Domus domini patet figura mysterii: Architectural imagination and the politics of place in the Carolingian ninth century
详细信息
- 作者：Collins ; Samuel William
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2005
- 关键词：Communication and the arts ; Social sciences ; Archite
- 导师：Koziol,Geoffrey
- 毕业院校：University of California
- 专业：Middle Ages;Architecture
- ISBN：9780542594045
- CBH：3210548
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：10158059
- Pages：374
文摘
The later eighth and ninth centuries saw the first great wave of ecclesiastical building in western Europe since the reign of Constantine. Alongside this surge in building activity,a wide range of texts were produced in different genres that together reveal the Carolingian interest in and uncertainty over the nature of sacred buildings. This dissertation explores how a series of ninth-century Carolingian authors articulated the relationship of form and function,ideal and reality,in the ecclesiastical architecture of the realm. I expose how this literature contains,not a Carolingian consensus about the nature of sacred architecture,but rather two polarized types of thinking about the meaning of holy buildings. One side of this debate elevated the status of churches and other sacred spaces,and argued that these buildings were fully and rightly continuous with their scriptural counterparts;the other refused to allow this kind of speculation for the places and objects of the contemporary world. This dichotomy over the nature of sacred buildings reveals fundamental divisions at the heart of the Carolingian project of reshaping the post-Roman west into a fully Christian society. Chapter One examines the contrasting presentation of holy places in three insular texts,Bede's De templo and De tabernaculo,and the Collectio canonum Hibernensis,each one widely read and cited in the Carolingian world. In Chapter Two I turn to the controversial liturgical exegesis of Amalarius of Metz and examine how bitter disagreement over the nature of the material of Christian worship shaped the successes and failures of Amalarius's career. Chapter Three follows the Carolingian dichotomy through three important texts produced in the context of the monastic reform of the reign of Louis the Pious: the Plan of St. Gall and the commentaries on the Benedictine Rule of Smaragdus of St. Mihiel and Hildemar of Corbie. Chapter Four examines how competing understandings of the nature of sacred buildings shaped the debate which took place between Alcuin,Charlemagne,and Theodulf of Orléans over the fate of a fugitive cleric who sought asylum at the shrine of St. Martin in Tours in the first years of the ninth century.