Art, ritual, and civic identity in medieval southern Italy

Abstract

"Describes the creation, function, and change in significance of liturgical furnishings and manuscripts in southern Italy from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Staging the Logos : the ambo in the medieval Mediterranean -- Unfurling the Logos : the Exultet rolls of south Italy -- Liturgical change and the double stage -- Trees of light : exegesis and liturgy in the context of the Easter candlestick -- Allegory and remembrance : lay patronage in the Angevin kingdom -- The saint and his city: hagiography, relics, and the panels of Santa Restituta in Naples -- Epilogue : Imitatio Christi and civic identity in Angevin Gaeta.