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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8083448, member: 110504&quot;]Thanks, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], for a terrific OP.</p><p>...With apologies for the fact that most of what I could contribute would be redundant.</p><p>Except, this set off some synapses.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[USER=56653]@seth77[/USER], yep, I saw it.&nbsp; My favorite scene was near the end, after the variously more and less self-absorbed <strike>tourists</strike> pilgrims were finally in the church.&nbsp; The censor swinging from the door to the altar was enough to bring tears to the eyes of a lifelong, but no less emphatically irenic Protestant.&nbsp; Especially as a visual metaphor for what was happening on a spiritual level, regardless of the (thank you, temporary) congregants&#039; divergent capacities to pick up on it.&nbsp; (Never mind, for one quick minute, what a church full of 21st, or 12th century pilgrims would have smelled like.)&nbsp; On dvd, from the chair I&#039;m sitting in now, it was pretty compelling.</p><p>...With apologies for doing this in the wrong thread, I&#039;ve been getting a lot of mileage from this, over the last year and change.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]5v1Tv_NqLuQ[/MEDIA]</p><p>...Well, okay, here&#039;s one German denar of the Salian dynasty (11th century), with a deptiction of the cathedral of Speyer, before it was even completed in its eventual, gloriously Romanesque form.&nbsp; (...And then mostly refaced in the 19th century, as I saw on my one trip to Europe, age 11.)&nbsp; I like how it&#039;s Just (as in, jee...Yust) early enough for Konrad II and Heinrich III to still be quoting the Byzantine ikonography on the other side.&nbsp; (Right, vis-a-vis the schism of 1051.)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404138[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404137[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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