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Sharon,
Miller makes some mention of the halls of bishops' palace in Italy
having judicial motiffs in their decoration.
I did find something related to my own question about crypts: Garth
Moore's English Canon Law says that the Court of Arches originally met
in the crypt of St. Mary le Bow in London.
Tom Izbicki
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>>> Sharon Dale <[log in to unmask]> 07/19/06 12:30 PM >>>
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Jon, you might take a look at Maureen Miller's book, The Bishop's
Palace.
Best, Sharon
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> In this line, were crypts of churches used as court rooms?
>
> Tom Izbicki
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>>>> Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> 07/19/06 12:05 PM >>>
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>> > Yet the *assumption* of a bishop's consistory court of some kind
in
> the
>> church is very frequently made in England, and their existence
>> immediately post-Reformation is a certainty.
>>
>> *where*, "in the church"?
>>
>> i'm just curious about the architectural setting for suchlike a
> proceding,
>> esp. if it were part of an on-going Institutional activity.
>
> Dear Jon and Christopher,
> The answer to that, at least sometimes, is that courts were
conducted
> in porches. I
> quote from Paul Williamson, Gothic Sculpture 1140-1300 (New Haven,
> 1995), p. 4:
> "The deep porches of the more ambitious churches would have provided
> shelter for
> large numbers of people and could be used in a variety of ways. The
> ubiquitous
> subject of the Last Judgement on Gothic portals, often with the
> supporting figures of
> Virtues and Vices and Wise and Foolish Virgins, would serve as an
> especially
> appropriate backdrop to the dispensation of justice, as was the case
at
> Leon
> Cathedral. Here, from an early date, a column set on the front of a
> Gothic canopied
> tabernacle was placed between the piers to the left of the Judgement
> portal. Its
> function is literally spelt out by the inscription LOCUS
APPELLACIONIS
> carved on
> its front face, and the arms of Leon and Castile appear below.
> Presiding over this
> symbol, in the niche behind, is the seated figure of King Solomon,
and
> a later
> personification of Justice, holding a sword and scales, has been
> inserted among the
> jamb figures of the adjacent doorway. Leon was not an isolated
case,
> and it is
> known that trials were also conducted in the area of the south
transept
> of Strasbourg
> Cathedral, in the west porches of the Minster of Freiburg im
Breisgau,
> Saint-Urbain
> at Troyes, and elsewhere."
> See also Barbara Deimling, "Le portail d'eglise au Moyen Age et sa
> signification
> juridique historique," in Rolf Toman, ed., L'Art roman (Cologne:
> Konemann, 1996),
> pp. 324-27 [also available in German and English editions], who gives
a
> number of
> other examples, mostly from the 12th and 13th centuries, although
where
> it is
> stipulated, the justice rendered seems to have been secular rather
than
> episcopal.
> Church doors before which justice was rendered were often painted
red,
> as in the
> Porte rouge at Notre-Dame in Paris.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
>
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