medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Friday, November 25, 2005, at 2:07 pm, chris crockett wrote:
> From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> >the abbey church at Casauria (today's Castiglione a Casauria
> [PE]) in
> Abruzzo....one of the region's "romanesque" monuments....
> > http://tinyurl.com/cw2xn
> an unusual ciborium (at least for the ciboriumically challenged):
>
> http://www.liceoscientificosulmona.it/ROMANICO-ABRUZZESE/Schede-
> edifici/S_CLEMENTE_A_CASAURIA/S_CLEMENTE_FOTO/CIBORIO.jpg
TinyURL for this: http://tinyurl.com/93ken
The ciborium is fifteenth-century, replacing an earlier one. It's
ascribed to a restoration variously said to have occurred either in
1448 or after 1456 (there was major earthquake damage both in 1348 and
in 1456). See the discussions in:
http://tinyurl.com/cw2xn
and in (although this Italian-language piece is not entirely error-
free):
http://www.psaelaquila.it/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=326
Note the inscription on the base:
... TVMBA SACRA CLEMENTIS HIC PAULI DECVS ET PETRI.
I had referred to the presence of C.'s supposed relics in the crypt.
But the inscription would seem to indicate that, at the time it was
carved, these were in (or were thought to be in) that late antique
sarcophagus serving as an altar.
> a depiction of the "TEMPLUM SANCTI TRINITATIS",
>
> http://www.liceoscientificosulmona.it/ROMANICO-ABRUZZESE/Schede-
> edifici/S_CLEMENTE_A_CASAURIA/S_CLEMENTE_FOTO/S_CLEMENTE.JPG
> although the caption reads "Raffigurazione della chiesa di S.
> Clemente"?
The original dedication to the Holy Trinity was never lost from
official sight, despite the prevailing tendency to refer to the
monastery as that of St. Clement. This illustration from John Berard's
twelfth-century cartulary chronicle of the abbey calls it
the "Monasterium Sanctae Trinitatis & Sancti Clementis":
http://www.liceoscientificosulmona.it/ROMANICO-ABRUZZESE/Schede-
edifici/S_CLEMENTE_A_CASAURIA/S_CLEMENTE_FOTO/CHRONICON.jpg
TinyURL for that: http://tinyurl.com/9hk4j
The arrangement of the four kings is interesting: it's not clear to me
why Lambert should follow Hugh rather than precede him. 'Lotharius
Rex' is presumably Lothar II, Hugh's immediate successor and the
predecessor of Berengar II (the king at far right).
Best again,
John Dillon
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