Dear fellows listmembers,
I didn't have many answers to my asking about western portal of Chartres
and 12th century heresies. :-(
Some of the present discussion developing on medieval intellectuals and
scholars, could i mention the School of Chartres, which, for almost all
the first half of the 12th century was certainly one of the best
intellectual centre in Europe (perhaps the best, better than Paris).
By the way the worshipping of Catherine d'Alexandrie is somewhat a
mystery for me. But i don't ask anybody to share that view.
I'm now treating a question apart from the list with a french scholar
about, in french, le "Dôme du Rocher" et l'Esplanade des mosquées à
Jérusalem. I'd like to know :
1) the story of the building of this sanctuary in the 7th century, i
read that the octogonal form of this building was coming from a byzantin
church in Jerusalem. Which ? Does it still exist ?
2) some bibliographical sources about those monuments (please not
tourist stuff, but explanation about iconography, analysis of the
architecture of the different buildings, their symbolism, …)
3) i read there were 3 reasons to worship the rock,
a) it was the rock upon which Abraham began to sacrify his son Isaac,
b) it was the place where Jacob had his dream
c) it was the place where prophet Muhammad went up to the sky
Which is to believe ? Perhaps the three.
4) and a gallup : when thinking about an octogonal sanctuary, which
comes to your mind first ? And which symbolism does it mean for you ?
Sorry for this long post, and sure that you consider that there was a
middle age outside of british isles ;-))
Yours
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James Herisson
Paris - France
"Fiducia est quoddam robur spei"
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