Cambridge: The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy (Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris)

Nakladatelství Cambridge University Press v lednu 2015 vydalo knihu The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy (Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-Century Paris) o nejslavnější památce 13. století - o pařížské královské kapli.

Autorkou textu (290 stran) je americká historička umění Meredith Cohen, která už v roce 2008 publikovala na stránkách medievistického časopisu Speculum zajímavý článek An indulgence for the visitor: the public at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris.

Cohen se zabývá především architekturou kaple a její souvislostí s dalšími pařížskými stavebními aktivitami Ludvíka Svatého. Nabízí bilanci donátorské aktivity Filipa II. Augusta i Ludvíka IX.

Velkou pozornost věnuje funkci Sainte-Chapelle v rámci života královského dvora i náboženských slavností v Paříži (procesí, ceremonie, prezentace relikvií apod.). Potěšilo mne, že autorka zná moje studie a že z nich při rekonstrukci obřadů v dolní a horní kapli vychází.

Zatímco mne zklamal katalog k výstavě Ludvíka IX. v Paříži (Saint Louis, 2014, ed. Pierre-Yves Le Pogam a Christine Vivet-Peclet) – je to jen soubor čtivě napsaných bilancujících esejů, knihou Meredith Cohen jsem nadšen. V příloze je latinské změní všech důležitých dokumentů i s anglickými překlady.

Peter Kováč

Internet:

http://www.cambridge.org/cz/academic/subjects/history/european-history-1000-1450/sainte-chapelle-and-construction-sacral-monarchy-royal-architecture-in-thirteenth-century-paris

Anotace nakladatelství:

This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century.

Table of Contents

1. The making of a royal city: Paris and the architecture of Philip Augustus

2. The Sainte-Chapelle: Parisian Rayonnant and the new royal architecture

3. The architecture of sacral kingship

4. Private, public, and the promotion of the cult of kings

5. Louis' later patronage in Paris

Conclusion

Author:

Meredith Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles

Meredith Cohen is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in the art, architecture, and urban development of high medieval Europe, particularly in France and England. She has published articles on the Sainte-Chapelle, the Court Style, medieval Paris, nineteenth-century restoration, and the historiography of Gothic architecture. In addition, she has edited a series of interdisciplinary volumes on medieval history and culture. In 2010, she curated an exhibition (with Xavier Dectot) on medieval Paris at the Musée national du Moyen Âge. She has received fellowships and grants from the British Academy, the Châteaubriand Foundation, the Société des Professeurs de Français et Francophones d'Amérique, the Whiting Foundation, and UCLA for her research. Cohen is the founder and was the first president of the International Medieval Society of Paris, an interdisciplinary scholarly society based in Paris.