Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
Medieval Bridge Building in the Christian Occident
Dieter Desczyk in Berlin has published a book on "Bridges and Saints". With its drawings it is a small rarity, there is nothing comparable. "Message": The bridge has something transcendent (crossing over) in the truest sense of the word, but also in the symbolic: over dangers from one world to another, and in this the saints are accompanying intercessors and true pontifices.
Topics:
- The Bridge in Myths and Fairy Tales of Antiquity
- The Bridge in Myth and Superstition of the Christian Occident
- The bridge as building and construction
- Politics and economics influence bridge building
- Financing of construction and erhatl
- The bridge and the city
- The bridge in front of the city - Regensburg
- The bridge in the city - Erfurt
- The Church of the Saints and bridges
- Individual representations: Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, France, Spain, Portugal, England
- Details
- Written by: Stefan Heid
- Category: Recommended reading