点评:A glorious church. It boggles the mind how far ahead architecture was compared to what was being built in England at the same time.
One room in the museum troubled me though. An extraordinary collection of saints’ reliquaries of all shapes and sizes. But no explanation on the context. What a missed opportunity. These are not merely pretty objects in gold and silver; they are the material expression of centuries of faith, hope and devotion. Whether or not one believes in the relics themselves, the extraordinary hold they had on the hearts and imaginations of generations is surely worth explaining. Yet we are given little more than names, dates and body parts. Really? There is a whole world of human longing, tenderness and belief behind these treasures, and almost none of it makes it onto the labels. An ecclesiastical museum like this should surely know better.
翻译:一座宏伟的教堂。令人惊叹的是,与其同时期英格兰的建筑相比,这里的建筑水平领先了何等之多。
不过博物馆里有一个展厅让我有些困扰:那里陈列着各式各样、大小不一的圣人遗物盒,收藏之丰富令人称奇。但却完全没有相关的背景介绍。真是错失良机啊。这些可不只是金银制成的漂亮物件;它们是数个世纪以来人们的信仰、希望与虔诚的物质体现。无论人们是否相信这些遗物本身……它们对历代人的心灵与想象力所产生的巨大影响力,绝对值得被好好阐释。然而我们看到的却只有名字、日期以及一些身体部位的描述罢了。真的吗?在这些藏品背后,其实蕴含着人类无数的渴望、温柔与信念,可这些内容几乎没有任何一项被记录在标签上。像这样的宗教博物馆理应更懂得如何呈现这些内涵才对。