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

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Apt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest; Desolate Treasure; Crypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I; Terra Sigillata; Relics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current; Venus Disfigured; The Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez; The Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II; City of God; Laying the Dragon Low; The Dark Ages: A History of Omissions; The Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe; The Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus; Celestial Paradigms; Vaulting the Nave; The Dome: Architecture as Antecedent.

Classical Roots, Evangelical BranchesVanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof; Incastellamento: Perching the Village, I; Incastellamento: Perching the Village, II (The Circulades of Languedoc); Faja Oscura; Psalmodi; The Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction; Mary Magdalene the Odoriferous; The Death of Genesis; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y.

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.

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