Quem Aspicientes Viverent
Symbolism in the Early Medieval Church Door and its Ironwork
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8883330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S A J Bradley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 223-237 |
| Publication date | 1988-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003581500069353 |
| OpenAlex | W2334579530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Symbolic perception of the church door in early English exegetical writings and in medieval liturgical practice is illustrated and discussed as the wider context of a proposal that the arched iron strip at the top of the twelfth-century church door at Stillingfleet, North Yorkshire, represents the rainbow of Noah's Flood, perceived as a reminder ofjudgement past and of judgement still to come, and as a symbol of the covenant between God and humanity. The possibility is considered that on other surviving early medieval church-doors too, the rainbow shape, even if primarily functional or dictated by the shape of the door-opening, and notwithstanding the absence of other figural imagery, may have been recognized as an emblem of the covenant, basis of all church-sanctioned contracts, aptly dislayed on the threshold—where various liturgical or other formal actions had their setting—of the sacred spaces of the domus dei
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Covenant · Emblem · Linguistics · Literature · Symbol (formal · Theology · Classics · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 1999 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |