Jim Bugslag wrote:
>...I have always taken some of the mosaic decoration in Ravenna as holding
traces of the "battle" there between Orthodoxy and Arianism....
This was, if rusty memory serves, the theme of Otto von Simson (Bart's
uncle?)'s _Sacred Fortress_, is it not?
Is von Simson still considered a readable entre to this facinating
problem or has his visionary S.F., like his later _The Gothic Cathedral_, been
nibbled to death by ducks, all its knits piqued by the feuilletonistas?
crockers
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