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Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean - Architecture, Cult, and Community (Paperback)
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Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean - Architecture, Cult, and Community (Paperback)
Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World
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This book explores the intersection between two key developments of
the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of
monumental churches and the veneration of saints. While Christian
sacred topography is usually interpreted in narrowly religious
terms as points of contact with holy places and people, this book
considers church buildings as spatial environments in which a range
of social 'work' happened. It draws on approaches developed in the
fields of anthropology, ritual studies, and social geography to
examine, for example, how church buildings facilitated
commemoration of the community's dead, establishment of a shared
historical past, and communication with the divine. Surveying
evidence for the introduction of saints into liturgical performance
and the architectural and decorative programs of churches, this
analysis explains how saints helped to bolster the boundaries of
church space, reinforce local social and religious hierarchies, and
negotiate the community's place within larger regional and cosmic
networks.
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