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Table
of Contents
Encounters
Compares looking for Moissac to looking for the Sasquatch - and seeing
what one expects to see.
The
Threshold
The nature of a portal as a door within a wall, a passage between
spaces, and a point of transformation. The case for seeing a medieval
portal as all of these rather than an excerpted detail studied in relationship
to other portals rather than to its own local context.
The
Abbey in Historical Records
Inscriptions and annal entries concerning the abbey – and
the visit of an antiquarian.
Recovering
Ruins: Historians and Antiquarians
A survey of the art historical writing about the abbey, showing
the changes in ways of perceiving the monument.
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