ARTHIST 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rood Screen, Offertory, Indulgence
11 Dec 2016
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The bishop himself kneeling at an alter, holding the stained glass window in one hand. Italy highest density of cathedrals: don"t have the same amount of resources competing with each other. The cathedral represents the bishop"s authority and prestige: at norwich the bishop sits at the door of cathedral to personally receive alms (1171) Bishop of coutances to the construction and expansion of his cathedral he dedicated himself fuly both day and night . A bishop applies for more relics 1360, as those of his cathedral were destroyed in an earthquake. Sources of income: regular ecclesiastical incomes, special taxes (gabelles, fund raising of various types, donations from the public (local, or pilgrims, after c. 1220: indulgences (time out of purgatory) The rpresentational value of the cathedral: a complicated and sometimes contentious division of authority and power; bishops guests , utrecht ms: bishop blessing the first stone: The liturgy of the blessing and the laying the first stone, c. 1455.
