medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The question of the Lateran IV and the development of various kinds of
altarpieces/altar decorations (and indeed the possible connections,
direct and indirect, between it and art historical questions in
general), has been given a useful recent airing in Binski, Paul
'Becket's Crown: Art and imagination in gothic England, 1170-1300', Yale
2004.
I think he concludes that, yes, various kinds of altar decoration:
frontals/reredoses/etc went through very important evolutionary stages
in the late c12/c13; and yes, these developments relate to the thinking
of many reform-minded churchmen of the era; but that the specific
influence of Lateran IV is hard to demonstrate, in that a) the evidence
for its promulgation varies from place to place; and b) it was not
necessarily 'ahead of the curve' among more radical churchmen: the
provisions given in the statutes of, for example Richard Poore at Old
Sarum/Salisbury, who was a member of the Stephen Langton/Innocent III
'circle', were actually *more* radical/prescriptive/enlightened in
several such respects.
Jon
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