medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> There might be something helpful in
> Kendall, Calvin B. The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque portals and their
> verse inscriptions (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1998)
Kendall's book is very useful for individual portals, where the accompanying
inscription can be eloquent in terms of how the door was intended to be used.
Perhaps if one were to chart whether the doors he features were west doors or
transept portals, one might get somewhere with how different doors on the same
church functioned, but he is not primarily concerned with that. Rather annoyingly,
Gothic portals stop featuring the sometimes profuse inscriptions that characterize
Romanesque portals, so he does not address directly any portal past about the
mid-12th century.
Thanks for this suggestion, Laura.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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