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I just checked, & there are 2 bishops named Serenus to whom Gregory I
sent letters. Thias is the relevant text addfessed to Serenus of Marseille:
EPISTOLA CV. AD SERENUM MASSILIENSEM EPISCOPUM. /Cyriacum
abbatem ad Syagrium euntem commendat, monet imagines in
Ecclesiis esse servandas./
Gregorius Sereno episcopo Massilliensi.
*[Col.1027C] *Quod fraternitati vestrae tam sera scripta transmittimus,
non hoc torpori, sed occupationi deputate. Latorem vero praesentium
dilectissimum filium nostrum Cyriacum, monasterii nostri Patrem, vobis
in omnibus commendamus, ut nulla hunc in Massiliensi civitate mora
detineat, sed ad fratrem et coepiscopum nostrum Syagrium cum sanctitatis
vestrae solatio, Deo protegente, proficiscatur.
Praeterea indico dudum ad nos pervenisse quod fraternitas vestra,
quosdam ^[a /2Kb/] imaginum adoratores aspiciens, ^[b /1Kb/] easdem
in Ecclesiis imagines confregit atque projecit. Et quidem zelum vos, ne
quid manufactum adorari posset, habuisse laudavimus, sed frangere easdem
imagines non debuisse ^[c /1Kb/] indicamus. Idcirco enim pictura in
Ecclesiis adhibetur, ut hi *[Col.1027D] *qui litteras nesciunt, saltem
in parietibus videndo *[Col.1028A] *legant quae legere in Codicibus non
valent. Tua ergo fraternitas et illas servare, et ab earum adoratu
populum prohibere debuit, quatenus et litterarum nescii haberent unde
scientiam historiae colligerent, et populus in picturae adoratione
minime peccaret.
Tom Izbicki
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> From: Dr Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>> Lawrence Duggan, "Reflections on 'Was Art Really the book of the
>>
> Illiterate?'," in Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms
> of Communication, ed. M. Hageman and M. Mostert (Turnhout, 2004), sorry, no
> page refs.
>
>
> how about:
>
> Duggan, Lawrence “Reflections on ‘Was Art Really the book of the
> Illiterate?’,” in Mariëlle Hageman and Marco Mostert, eds. Reading images
> and texts: medieval images and texts as forms of communication: papers from
> the Third Utrecht Symposium on Medieval Literacy, Utrecht, 7-9 December 2000
> (Utrecht studies in medieval literacy, 8), (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp.
> 63-107. [PN663 .R43 2005]
>
> from the contents
>
> http://opac.khi.fi.it/cgi-bin/hkhi_de.pl?t_idn=b287440f]
>
> also of interest (at least to me) in that volume might be:
>
> Barral i Altet, Xavier. “Les images de la Porte Romane comme un Livre Ouvert
> à l'entrée de l’Église,” pp. 528-543.
>
> Diebold, William J. “Changing perceptions of the visual in the Middle
> Ages,” pp. 161-175.
>
> and
>
> Kessler, Herbert L. “Corporeal texts, spiritual paintings, and the minds
> eye’,” pp. 9-61.
>
> has anyone actually read any of these?
>
> is the "Porte Romane" in the first one the 12th c. portal on the north
> transept of Reims cathedral?
>
> c
>
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