At 16:52 25/11/98 +0100, you wrote: >Duncan Givans: Grad. Student at Warwick University, UK > >I am working on English Romanesque architectural sculpture, >particularly tympana. My interests are in the way buildings were >constructed for the display of decorative schemes and symbolic >imagery and the evidence presented by sculpture preserved in local >churches for the nature of lay piety and devotion. Since most of my >material is preserved in local churches I am interested in the >nature of various core-periphery relationships between local >churches/ manor communities and great churches/ regular communities. >I am also interested in other aspects of Latin and Orthodox art, >culture and society during the central Middle Ages. > >I have a friend, Rita Wood, who is working on Romanesque Tympana and has looked at many romanesque doorways in the York area and beyond. She is not online, but I shall give her a copy of your message. The Supple Doctor. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%