LEADER 03818nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910465157403321 005 20210622032924.0 010 $a1-282-77243-0 010 $a9786612772436 010 $a0-520-94241-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520942417 035 $a(CKB)3390000000006992 035 $a(EBL)837187 035 $a(OCoLC)773564911 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438720 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11305115 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438720 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10452016 035 $a(PQKB)10020106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837187 035 $a(OCoLC)670278186 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30692 035 $a(DE-B1597)519943 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520942417 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837187 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10675700 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277243 035 $a(EXLCZ)993390000000006992 100 $a20071220d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLadder of shadows$b[electronic resource] $ereflecting on medieval vestige in Provence and Languedoc /$fGustaf Sobin ; foreword by Michael Ignatieff 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 225 0 $aAn Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25334-5 311 0 $a0-520-25335-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tIntroduction --$tApt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest --$tDesolate Treasure --$tCrypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I --$tTerra Sigillata --$tRelics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current --$tVenus Disfigured --$tThe Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez --$tThe Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II --$tCity of God --$tLaying the Dragon Low --$tThe Dark Ages: A History of Omissions --$tThe Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe --$tThe Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus --$tCelestial Paradigms --$tVaulting the Nave --$tThe Dome: Architecture as Antecedent --$tClassical Roots, Evangelical Branches --$tVanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof --$tIncastellamento: Perching the Village, I --$tIncastellamento: Perching the Village, II The Circulades of Languedoc --$tFaja Oscura --$tPsalmodi --$tThe Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction --$tMary Magdalene the Odoriferous --$tThe Death of Genesis --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aBits 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. 606 $aArchaeology and history$zFrance, Southern 607 $aFrance, Southern$xAntiquities 607 $aFrance, Southern$xCivilization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchaeology and history 676 $a944/.802 700 $aSobin$b Gustaf$01050519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465157403321 996 $aLadder of shadows$92480362 997 $aUNINA