THE LATE MEDIEVAL ROAD TO CHURCH: BETWEEN SPLENDOR AND DUST

• Authors: Jaritz G.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author presents medieval roads to churches as public areas ranging from prestigious alleys to simple dusty roads. He refers to sermons which criticised luxurious dresses, and especially long trains, with which ladies swept the dust on the way to the church and inside. He discusses symbols located along roads leading to churches, such as gravestones, inscriptions, reliefs and spolia, which added to the prestige and fame of the donors and their families. He also analyses municipal regulations which emphasised the festive character of roads to churches as well as the necessity to keep them clean.

Keywords

EN

ROADS TO CHURCHES

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 131-136
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jaritz G.

• G. Jaritz, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut fuer Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der fruehen Neuzeit, Koernermarkt 13, A-3500 Krems, Oesterreich.

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA00701761