medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> He was lord of Braine, but not through his wife; it was directly part of the
Dreux inheritance.
thanks, i had his wife stuck in my braine, there somewhere.
hey, Braine is up in the Soissonais --i wonder how the Dreuxes got holdings
away up there?
the Royal connection, i suppose.
i'll have to actually read Madeline Caviness' beautiful book.
[Madeline Harrison Caviness. Sumptuous arts at the royal abbeys in Reims and
Braine : ornatus elegantiae, varietate stupendes. Princeton University Press,
c1990.]
> > the Coronation of the Virgin on the portal of that fine High Gothic little
church (the family necropolis?) there would certainly qualify as "devotion", i
should think.
> Perhaps, but the Premonstratensian priory church was dedicated to St Yved.
be that as it may, the iconography of the spectacular portal is certainly
"Marian".
how about the glass?
>It was the family necropolis of the Dreux family.
so i understand.
Teuscher, Andrea. Das Prämonstratenserkloster Saint-Yved in Braine als
Grablege der Grafen von Dreux : zu Stifterverhalten und Grabmalgestaltung im
Frankreich des 13. Jahrhunderts. Bamberg: Lehrstuhl I für Kunstgeschichte
und Aufbaustudium Denkmalpflege an der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg,
1990. 224 p., [30] p. of plates
c
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