An Eschatological Mirror: The Romanesque Portal of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
Michele Vescovi
A long-standing historiographic tradition has explained the twelfth-century portal of Saint-Pierre at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne through lens struggle against heresy, connecting its monumental imagery with writings abbot Cluny, Peter Venerable, specifically his treatises Liber adversus Iudeorum and Contra Petrobrusianos. In this article, unusual program is explored in light Cluniac liturgical readings transmitted by late eleventh-century lectionary used Cluny (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2246) other coeval sources. I argue that portal, informed these texts, was not only conceived as a visual progression from Lent to Easter but also possibly intended mirror, which liturgy performed front it resonated amplified unveil deep eschatological meaning.
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