| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 236 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities
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| Note |
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Apt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest 5 -- Desolate Treasure 15 -- Crypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I 20 -- Terra Sigillata 29 -- Relics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current 35 -- Venus Disfigured 44 -- Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez 52 -- Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II 59 -- City of God 65 -- Laying the Dragon Low 76 -- Dark Ages: A History of Omissions 85 -- Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe 92 -- Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus 99 -- Celestial Paradigms 107 -- Vaulting the Nave 113 -- Dome: Architecture as Antecedent 120 -- Classical Roots, Evangelical Branches 126 -- Vanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof 136 -- Incastellamento: Perching the Village, I 143 -- Incastellamento: Perching the Village, II (The Circulades of Languedoc) 153 -- Faja Oscura 163 -- Psalmodi 169 -- Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction 175 -- Mary Magdalene the Odoriferous 184 -- Death of Genesis 196. |
| Summary |
Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene--these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative. A companion volume to his acclaimed Luminous Debris, Ladder of Shadows picks up where the former left off: with late antiquity, covering a period from roughly the third to the thirteenth century. Here Sobin offers brilliant readings of late Roman and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Archaeology and history -- France, Southern.
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Archaeology and history. |
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Southern France. |
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France, Southern -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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France, Southern -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9786612772436 (DLC) 2007052242 |
| ISBN |
0520253353 (paper) |
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9780520253353 (paper) |
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0520253345 (cloth) |
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9780520253346 (cloth) |
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9780520942417 (electronic book) |
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0520942418 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9786612772436 |
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