medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Jon Cannon <[log in to unmask]>
> Just a short note to remind those following this thread that remains of
comparable structures of comparable date (ie first half c12, perhaps
c1130) have been identified at Durham (monastic) and Chichester
(secular, but the form of the screen here is less certain). In both
cases reconstructions are based on fragmentary surviving releifs: in the
case of Durham, the releifs are smaller but there is some documentary
evidence to help guess at the screen's design; in the case of Chichester
the reliefs are arguably the greatest pieces of Romanesque sculpture in
the country, but their original setting is less certain. It seems they
were attached (from memory) to the interior walls of a choir screen or
even the crossing arches themselves, but it seems reasonable to assume
they were part of an ensemble which continued as a screen across the
choir.
i saw the extraordinary Chichester reliefs in '68 or so, but never thought of
them as being (obviously) perhaps from a jubé.
and i'm sure that there is a whole literature on them up with which i have not
kept.
baring any other evidence (structural/architectural fragments like pier or
column reliefs, early modren graphics, *unambiguous* contemporary texts), why
should we assume that, at this early date, they were part of "a screen across
the choir"?
why could they not have been, say, panels in the multi-faceted sides of a true
"pulpit", as we se in so many Italian examples, both earlier and later??
presumably, any contemporary (12th c.) texts which mention a _pulpitum_
*could* refer to either a simple "pulpit" or to the sort of more elaborate
"jubé" which we see in later periods.
just axing.
c
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