Introduction; Art and Liturgy in the Oratory of Pope John VII; Cross Altar and Crucifix in Ottonian Cologne; The Golden Altar of Sant' Ambrogio in Milan; Narrative 'Modes' in the Danish Golden Frontals; Body and Space in the Olst Frontal; The Stadil Altar Frontal.
Erik Thuno is assistant director of the Danish Academy in Rome. Soren Kaspersen is associate professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.
"The commitment to employing recent methodological developments to better understand the interaction between biblical past, artistic representation, and liturgical performance presents a laudably coherent work [...] The essays in this collection weave beautiful, rich, and largely convicing interpretations of medieval altar imagery [...] Decorating the Lord's Table provides an interesting and multilayered look at the aesthetic side of liturgy and theology in the Middle Ages. The breadth of the essay is one of the work's great strenghts, while the methodological concerns that tie the diverse studies together shed new light on our understanding of medieval alters." -Dana Polanichka, Comitatus - A Journal of Medieval and Rennaissance Studies, vol. 38, 2007
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