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Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc

Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc

Ignatieff, Michael
Sobin, Gustaf

Paperback

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAncient History GeneralFrench History

ISBN10: 0520253353
ISBN13: 9780520253353
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jan 5 2009
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
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 early Christian ruins in his adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself.

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