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

Essentially interdisciplinary, this innovative collection of essays - religious case-histories of many kinds from three eras, - explores in depth the dynamic interaction of sacred text and sacred space, forming and reforming through time, to shape and voice one another.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sterrett, Joseph, Thomas, Peter Wynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; Part One The Medieval Sacred; Images of Words: Iconographies of Text and the Construction of Sacred Space in Medieval Church Wall Painting; Anglo-Saxon Monasteries as Sacred Places: Topography, Exegesis and Vocation; The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's Church: Consecration, Restoration, and Translation; An Arena for the Holy: The Imitatio Francisci of Margery Kempe; Part Two Re-Writing Sacred Space in the Early Modern Period; To Great Saint Jacques Bound: All's Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare's Spain
  • Sacred Space in Laudian EnglandEarly Modern Sacred Space: Writing The Temple; The "Desert Sanctified": Henry Vaughan's Church in the Wilderness; Part Three Sacred Text and Sacred Space in the Nineteenth Century; The Abbey-Meditation Tradition: Wordsworth's Sources in the Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth-Century 'Church Catholic': Liturgy, Theology and Architecture; Sacred Space as Sacred Text: Church and Chapel Architecture in Victorian Britain
  • Collector Connoisseurs or Spiritual Aesthetes? The Role of Anglican Clergy in the Growth of Interest in Collecting and Displaying Early Italian Art (1830s-1880s)Epilogue: Is the Modern World Disenchanted?; Index; Plates