Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Staging the Logos: The Ambo in the Medieval Mediterranean

2 Unfurling the Logos: The Exultet Rolls of South Italy

3 Liturgical Change and the Double Stage

4 Trees of Light: Exegesis and Liturgy in the Context of the Easter Candlestick

5 Allegory and Remembrance: Lay Patronage in the Angevin Kingdom

6 The Saint and His City: Hagiography, Relics, and the Panels of Santa Restituta in Naples

Epilogue: Imitatio Christi and Civic Identity in Angevin Gaeta

Appendixes

Iconographic Indexes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

“[Nino Zchomelidse] is to be thanked for producing a work which is both stimulating and provocative.”

—Valentino Pace, Burlington Magazine