Sacred text-- sacred space : architectural, spiritual and literary convergences in England and Wales /

Sacred text-- sacred space : architectural, spiritual and literary convergences in England and Wales /

This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in differ...

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Other Authors: Sterrett, Joseph., Thomas, Peter.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Studies in Religion and the Arts 4.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223110.

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Religious architecture > Europe.
Sacred space > Europe.

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Call Number: BL580 .S23 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Joseph Sterrett
  • Images of Words: Iconographies of Text and the Construction of Sacred Space in Medieval Church Wall Painting /
  • Madeleine Gray
  • Anglo-Saxon Monasteries as Sacred Places: Topography, Exegesis and Vocation /
  • Thomas Pickles
  • The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's Church: Consecration, Restoration, and Translation /
  • Laura Varnam
  • An Arena for the Holy: The Imitatio Francisci of Margery Kempe /
  • Roy Eriksen
  • To Great Saint Jacques Bound: All's Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare's Spain /
  • Richard Wilson
  • Sacred Space in Laudian England /
  • Graham Parry
  • Early Modern Sacred Space: Writing The Temple /
  • Helen Wilcox
  • The "Desert Sanctified": Henry Vaughan's Church in the Wilderness /
  • Peter Thomas
  • The Abbey-Meditation Tradition: Wordsworth's Sources in the Eighteenth Century /
  • Dennis Taylor
  • The Nineteenth-Century 'Church Catholic': Liturgy, Theology and Architecture /
  • Allan Doig
  • Sacred Space as Sacred Text: Church and Chapel Architecture in Victorian Britain /
  • William Whyte
  • Collector Connoisseurs or Spiritual Aesthetes? The Role of Anglican Clergy in the Growth of Interest in Collecting and Displaying Early Italian Art (1830s-1880s) /
  • Susanna Avery-Quash
  • Epilogue: Is the Modern World Disenchanted? /
  • Patrick Sherry
  • Index
  • Plates.