![]() ![]() Some of Binski's best pages are given to Edward's cult, for which his study has a value independent of the cult's architectural and artistic context. At the same time it was the shrine of a thoroughly insular saint, though Edward the Confessor's quaUties, transmuted by hagiographical developments of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries from kingly to chivalric virtues, were ones which belonged to European culture. But Ui its decoration and symboUsm it drew on a much wider range of influences, notably from the Rome of the Cosmati, whose mosaic work was continued under Edward Fs patronage. ![]() The models for the church were certainly in large part French and here Binski restores Reims to its traditional place as exemplar, though with Louis LX's Sainte ChapeUe not far behind. The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by William of Tudela (review) The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by William of Tudela (review)ģ12BOOK REVIEWS centration of roles which had no French counterpart. ![]()
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