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By R.H. Rough

The Gospels ofMatilda, Countess ofTuscany, is a manuscript written and illuminated in Northern Italy towards the tip ofthe 11th century. a reputable fourteenth century record states that it was once awarded by way of the Countess to the Benedictine monastery of Polirone, close to Mantua. within the manuscript's pictorial cycle, the detoxing of the Temple and the scenes regarding it are iconographically additional­ traditional. An realizing of them needs to start with a research in their ideological resources, heavily similar historicfigures, Medieval writers who hired the determine ofthe detoxing ofthe Temple, and the political-social stream ofthe Patarines. Then the Matilda Gospels' illuminations will stand published because the key creative expression of the Gregorian Reform and as a first-rate rfile of a few of an important occasions and concepts ofthe heart a while. II. artwork AND THE REFORM OF THE 11th CENTURY Church reform within the 11th century was once a heroic interact­ ment. Norman Cantor calls it one of many 4 nice «world­ revolutions» of Western history.! The authority of the papacy, theindependenceofthechurch,andtheveryleadershipofMedie­ val society have been its mortally contested concerns serious either to historical past and to political theory.2 Gregory VII and Matilda of Tuscany have been yet of the bright personalities between its partisans. yet within the heritage ofart the fight has been approximately invisible.

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