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

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 Fo...

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Contributors: Sterrett, Joseph (Other) ; Thomas, Peter Wynn (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill 2011
In:Year: 2011
Series/Journal:Studies in religion and the arts 1877-3192 v. 4
Studies in religion and the arts v. 4
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B England / Wales / Church building / Christian art / Relationship / Christian literature / Spirituality / History
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Electronic books History
B Christianity and the arts (England) History
B Wales
B England
B RELIGION ; Christianity ; Literature & the Arts
B Christianity and the arts
B Christianity and the arts History Wales England Wales
B History
B Christianity and the arts (Wales) History
B Christianity and the arts History England
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Summary: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
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
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
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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004216456