"Describes the creation, function, and change in significance of liturgical furnishings and manuscripts in southern Italy from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
Art, ritual, and civic identity in medieval southern Italy
Liturgy and art--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Italy, Southern
Staging the Logos : the ambo in the medieval Mediterranean -- Unfurling the Logos : the Exultet rolls of south Italy -- Liturgical change and the double stage -- Trees of light : exegesis and liturgy in the context of the Easter candlestick -- Allegory and remembrance : lay patronage in the Angevin kingdom -- The saint and his city: hagiography, relics, and the panels of Santa Restituta in Naples -- Epilogue : Imitatio Christi and civic identity in Angevin Gaeta.
Art and society--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Church decoration and ornament--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Candlesticks--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Bemas (Architecture)--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Exultet rolls--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern
Liturgical objects--History--To 1500--Italy, Southern