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J Brit Archaeol Ass 157
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Title:
J Brit Archaeol Ass 157
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Series:
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
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Volume:
157
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Publication Type:
Journal
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Editor:
Martin Henig
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Publisher:
British Archaeological Association
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Year of Publication:
2004
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date:
14 Jan 2005
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Iconoclasm in Roman Chester: the significance of the mutilated tombstones from ...
Cheryl Clay
1 - 16
In the late nineteenth century over a hundred Roman tombstones were discovered built into the fabric of the north wall of the fortress at Chester. It has generally been assumed that the stones found their way into the walls as part of a rebuilding of the defences by Legio XX Valeria Victrix in the later Roman period. Although many of the stones showed signs of deliberate mutilation, this was dismissed as the consequence of their re-use. The paper aims to interrogate these assumptions by looking into the ideological implications behind the re-use of the monuments. It questions what happened to XX Valeria Victrix, which is not recorded in the Notitia Dignitatum, and whose last epigraphic traces are to be found on the coins of the defector Carausius, and suggests that the Twentieth was disbanded and its tombstones mutilated as a consequence of its involvement in the usurpbation.
`The chamber called Gloriette'; living at leisure in thirteenth- and fourteenth-ce...
Jeremy Ashbee
17 - 40
Recent research at Chepstow Castle has identified a chamber known by the name `Gloriette'. Other buildings with this name have previously been identified at Corfe, Leeds and Hesdin Castles and at Canterbury Cathedral Priory. `Gloriette' has usually been explained as a reference to a type of garden building in the Islamic world. The architectural differences between oriental garden pavilions and thirteenth-century Gothic chambers, and the particular association of the term with castles rather than unfortified manors, suggest an alternative meaning. It is proposed that `Gloriette' was more immediately a reference to a twelfth-century chanson de geste, `la Prise d'Orange', in which the name was used for an exotic marble tower. However the recurrent association of the word with Islamic Spain suggests that European patrons adopted it with these connotations of a sophisticated alien culture in mind.
The laity, the clergy and the divine presence: the use of space in smaller churches of the eleven...
Paul S Barnwell
41 - 60
The techniques of spatial analysis are deployed to gain insights into the ways in which smaller churches of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were designed to be used. A range of plan types is discussed, including churches with one, two and three cells, linear and cross-shaped plans, and `round' churches. The resulting analysis of the forms of buildings is then placed in the historical context of ecclesiastical reform, and it is argued that some of the changes in church layout were designed to separate the clergy from the laity, mirroring their increasing legal and social differentiation. It is also argued that the ways in which clergy used space were similar in all types of church examined, and that they show continuity from Early Christian buildings to the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when rising belief in the transubstantiation of the Host led to the evolution of new forms of clergy space.
Of corpses, constables and kings: the danse macabre in late medieval and Renaissance...
Sophie Oosterwijk
61 - 90
The origins of the danse macabre, or Dance of Death, are obscure; however from the first half of the fifteenth century it spread rapidly through European art, literature and drama. Visual examples are found in murals, stained-glass windows, illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, and sculpture, and it continued to enjoy great popularity amongst artists and patrons long after the medieval period.
The south porch of Gloucester Cathedral: a study of nineteenth-century stone repair types
Steve Bagshaw
Carolyn M Heighway
Arthur Price
91 - 114
A survey was carried out of the stone types of the south porch of Gloucester Cathedral, repaired in 1992. Although very little of the medieval fabric remained, much information emerged about the types of stone used in the nineteenth century, and the building materials of the original south porch could also be established. The work formed the basis of most present knowledge about the past use of stone at Gloucester Cathedral.
Peter Erik Lasko 1924--2003
Eric C Fernie