scholarly journals How to Carve a King: Janna’s Inscription in the Temple of Amṛteśvara

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-88
Author(s):  
Elena Mucciarelli
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
The Temple

Abstract The article provides a reading of a twelfth-century inscription composed by a courtly poet in Karnataka. At its most rudimentary level, the inscription praises the king and glorifies his commander. However, a closer reading demonstrates the poet playing with the conventions of his time. One of the techniques used to enhance the power of the ruler was to represent the commanders as replicas of their king. The author turns this mechanism into the inscription’s poetic motif. He uses the very dynamic of reduplication to subtly show the limits in the construction of power.

Masterpieces of Oriental Art: 15: Two Heavenly Dancers from Khedrapur (Twelfth Century A.D.)

1950 ◽  
Vol 82 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
H. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
South West ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Indian Art

These two sculptures decorate the pedestal of the Koppeśvara Temple at Khedrapur, south-west of Miraj in the Deccan. Though mentioned in H. Cousens' Chāluhyan Architecture, this temple has so far hardly attracted attention, badly disfigured as it is by later restorations. In a.d. 1231 it was repaired by the Yadava king Singhanadeva. Nothing else is known about it, and the temple poses knotty problems for the art historian. Its sculptures are among the masterpieces of Mediaeval Indian art.

BROTHERLY RIVALS: TEMPLARS, HOSPITALLERS AND THE ARCHITECTURAL EXPANSION OF THE TEMPLE CHURCH IN LONDON

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Zachary Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Military Orders ◽  
The Temple

The Temple Church, founded as the chapel of the motherhouse of the English Templars around 1160, is among the most intriguing medieval churches in London. Utilising a wide range of textual, archaeological and architectural evidence, this paper provides a new account of the evolution of the ecclesiastical complex from the mid-twelfth century to the mid-thirteenth century, focusing in particular on the form and the function of a series of now largely obliterated auxiliary structures. It argues that one of the driving forces for the construction of these buildings was a competition for both patrons and prestige that existed between the two preeminent military orders of the period: the Templars and the Hospitallers.

Praising Mary

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Ihnat
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Virgin Birth ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Active Contribution

This chapter examines the monastic means of addressing Mary in prayer and song in order to highlight the active contribution made by monks in the Anglo-Norman sphere to her devotion as mother of mercy. It begins with a discussion of the various feasts that were celebrated in England in honor of Mary, including the feast of the Purification and the Byzantine feasts of Mary's Conception and Presentation in the Temple. It then considers how devotion to Mary was manifested in the liturgy through masses and offices that both replaced and supplemented the regular hours of the day. It also looks at how the liturgical celebration of Mary as a saint became supplemented in the twelfth century by new forms of prayer. Finally, it explains how the unbelief of Jews was exploited to emphasize the folly of refusing the virgin birth and Mary's redemptive role in the history of salvation.

Richard of St Victor's Solutions to Problems of Architectural Representation in the Twelfth Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Kinsella
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Strong Correlation ◽  
Architectural Drawings ◽  
Architectural Representation ◽  
The Temple ◽  
As If

AbstractThis article argues that Richard of St Victor's twelfth-century architectural drawings for his historical exegesis of Ezekiel's vision of the Temple of Jerusalem is more sophisticated than the historiography has suggested to date. In his commentary, Richard provided plans and elevations for a number of different buildings, including the Temple's gatehouse. When attempting to convey the dimensions of the gatehouse, he made a distinction between measurements taken as if along a flat plane and those that take the slope of the mountain into account, calling these planum and superficies respectively, words that indicate a strong correlation to contemporary practices in geometry. When he wished to illustrate the dimensions of a gatehouse's interior, he included a lateral section of the building, which is possibly the earliest in existence. The use of the term planum (similar in meaning to the subsequent word ‘plan’) and the appearance of a section are unusually early, although there is still no evidence that Richard's work directly influenced later architectural drawings.

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