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| ISBN: | 9781442680487
1442680482
0802042627
9780802042620
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-378) and index.
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| Summary: | The Allegory of the church is the first full-length study of Romanesque verse inscriptions in the context of church portals and portal sculpture, and is the product of a twenty-year study. Calvin B. Kendall demonstrates how these inscriptions served to express the role of the church building as a concrete allegory of Christ and the Church. Describing them in detail, he traces the history and nature of the changes in allegorical interpretation of the inscriptions until, as medieval assumptions about language and rhetoric changed, they were finally abandoned by Gothic artists.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kendall, Calvin B. Allegory of the Church : Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9780802042620
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