Image et parole : le vitrail de Saint Lubin à Chartres : sens et fonction de ses images à la fin du XIIe siècle

  • Gastinne-Biclet, Armelle,
Publication date
September 2019
Publisher
HAL CCSD

Abstract

The enigma of saint Lubin stained glass window at Chartres, showing a wine story in the middle of the saint’s life, can be resolved by a symbolic interpretation of it’s images, if paying regard to the medieval mental schemes : the central Eucharistic mystery of the wine enables the young Lubin to achieve sainthood, through his own vocation of consecrated (the learned canon of XIIth century appearing under the VIth century monk), priest and bishop, Good Sheperd dispensing divine gifts. The unusual presence of small human figures at the outer framework of the stained glass window emphasises the important role to be played by the laity in the Eucharistic mysteries. It takes part, with the introductive images, to a preached exhortation of the w...

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