Gates to paradise: metal doors of the 11th and 12th century

Contents

The Italian maritime republics : commercial and intercultural networks (9th to 12th centuries) / John Morrissey -- In front of the bronze doors : patronage, devotions and rituals at Salerno Cathedral / Maddalena Vaccaro -- The bronze door of San Zeno : developments and techniques / Fabio Coden -- The bronze doors of Gniezno Cathedral Church as a text of culture : a history of the research and some new insights / Tomasz Węcławowicz -- The bronze door of San Clemente a Casauria and its monumental and environmental context / Gaetano Curzi -- Art and history of the bronze door of Benevento Cathedral / Antonio Milone -- Medieval bronze doors as Figura of heavenly Jerusalem's gates : the materiality of the virtual in the iconologies of matter, technique, and object / Heike Schlie -- Ad perpetiuitatem monimentorum? Medieval doors after the middle ages / Judith Utz -- The bronzes of the Carolingian Church of St. Mary's in Aachen / Sebastian Ristow -- Preliminary results of the chemical analyses of selected bronze doors from the 11th-12th century / Marianne Mödlinger, Giorgia Chiara -- Photographic documentation and 3D-surface modelling of Mediaeval bronze doors / Martin Fera.