{"product_id":"ladder-of-shadows-9780520253353","title":"Ladder of Shadows","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA companion to \"Luminous Debris\", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted region of Provence, sifting through iconographic, architectural, and sacramental vestiges to shed light on nothing less than the existential itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Michael Ignatieff Introduction  Apt: Reading an Antique City as Palimpsest  Desolate Treasure  Crypto-Christianity: The Sarcophagi of Arles, I  Terra Sigillata  Relics: Membra Martyrum as Living Current  Venus Disfigured  The Blossoming of Numbers: The Baptistery at Riez  The Deletion of Shadow: The Sarcophagi of Arles, II  City of God  Laying the Dragon Low  The Dark Ages: A History of Omissions  The Blue Tears of Sainte-Marthe  The Blind Arcade: Reflections on a Carolingian Sarcophagus  Celestial Paradigms  Vaulting the Nave  The Dome: Architecture as Antecedent  Classical Roots, Evangelical Branches  Vanished Scaffolds and the Structures Thereof  Incastellamento: Perching the Village, I  Incastellamento: Perching the Village, II (The Circulades of Languedoc)  Faja Oscura  Psalmodi  The Fifth Element: From Manna to Exaction  Mary Magdalene the Odoriferous  The Death of Genesis  Notes Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359049548119,"sku":"9780520253353","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520253353.jpg?v=1754123374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ladder-of-shadows-9780520253353","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}