The Sounding Waters. Performing World Harmony at Aquisgranum
Nicoletta Isar
Abstract This paper explores the issue of performative spaces in medieval Latin Church, examining mindsets time and ways practitioners adopted Platonic notion world harmony. We then look at Palatine Chapel Aachen (Latin Aquisgranum ) light Plato’s doctrine. At heart this analysis will be cosmological drama creation world, described by Ambrose as a chorus constitutive elements. It is from image that proto-model Christian Church ‘moving waters’ was derived, vision shared both Eastern Western world. To day, chapel conveys appearance Ambrosian primordial waters, with its renewed marble revetments imitating cosmic waters. The church designed according to propria dispositione , i. e. modularity. Augustine’s concept modularity his psychology sound, space, movement, explored hypothetical inquiry into dramatization space Aachen. Here, we find has two choreographies (one physical, one incorporeal) which unfold like-stage set up synthesis arts shaped numbers. Relevant concepts our topic emerge analysis, such concord, consonance agreement, measure movement – metaphors idea ‘dance’ exceeds character mere performance.
Das Mittelalter