TY - BOOK ID - 77893745 TI - Ladder of shadows PY - 2009 SN - 1282772430 9786612772436 0520942418 0520253353 9780520253353 0520253345 9780520253346 9780520942417 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Archaeology and history KW - Historical archaeology KW - History and archaeology KW - History KW - France, Southern KW - Méditerranéen (France) KW - Midi (France) KW - South of France (France) KW - Southern France KW - Civilization. KW - Antiquities. KW - antique city. KW - architecture. KW - baptistery at riez. KW - carolingian sarcophagus. KW - celestial paradigms. KW - city of god. KW - dark ages. KW - death of genesis. KW - early christian ruins. KW - early medieval glassworks. KW - faja oscura. KW - france. KW - human history. KW - iconography. KW - incastellamento. KW - late antiquity. KW - late roman coins. KW - late roman ruins. KW - luminous debris. KW - lyrical narrative. KW - marble venus. KW - provence. KW - psalmodi. KW - reputed tomb of mary magdalene. KW - sacraments. KW - sainte marthe. KW - sarcophagi of arles. KW - southeastern france. KW - the circulades of languedoc. KW - venus disfigured. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893745 AB - Bits of late Roman coinage, the mutilated torso of a marble Venus, blue debris from an early medieval glassworks, and the powder rasped from the reputed tomb of Mary Magdalene-these tantalizing mementos of human history found scattered throughout the landscape of southeastern France are the points of departure for Gustaf Sobin's lyrical narrative. A companion volume to his acclaimed Luminous Debris, Ladder of Shadows picks up where the former left off: with late antiquity, covering a period from roughly the third to the thirteenth century. Here Sobin offers brilliant readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in his adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself. ER -