medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> The doors of a church connect two parts of the world - in reality and
> symbolic. Somehow the liturgy is continued outwards and the Rituals
> of the public come near and in. The church as building is a medium
> for the people and also the doors: People can read it and people can
> use it. You know the importance of entrada in the medieval society.
> Therefore it is important, whre you go in or out and how. You have
> also to think on many activities just in front of a church-door, e.g.
> trials etc. It would be a large and interesting field to discuss the
> portals as a form of communication between church and socity, but I
> think, it would be too large for this forum.
> Yours
Dear Karl,
You are absolutely right about the need for more work to be done on how doors
function. One of the few articles I have found on these matters is Barbara Deimling,
"Le portail d'eglise au Moyen Age et sa signification juridique historique," in Rolf
Toman, L'Art Roman (Cologne: Konemann, 1996), also available in the original
German and in an English translation. As my original query suggests, I believe that
there are two separate aspects of the function of doors. They were certainly used
liturgically and juridically, and those usages must have been carefully defined in
written form. But there were also a range of "popular" uses, which is what I am
interested in. We know much less about these, because they were never enshrined
in written codification.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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