Ladder of Shadows: Reflecting on Medieval Vestige in Provence and Languedoc (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520253353)

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 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.

Author: Gustaf Sobin
ISBN-10: 0520253353
ISBN-13: 9780520253353
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2009
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.46w x 0.67d