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Defining the Holy - Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Defining the Holy - Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Holy sites, both public - churches, monasteries, shrines - and more
private - domestic chapels, oratories - populated the landscape of
medieval and early modern Europe, providing contemporaries with
access to the divine. These sacred spaces thus defined religious
experience, and were fundamental to both the geography and social
history of Europe over the course of 1,000 years. But how were
these sacred spaces, both public and private, defined? How were
they created, used, recognised and transformed? And to what extent
did these definitions change over the course of time, and in
particular as a result of the changes wrought in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary
approach, this volume tackles these questions from the point of
view of archaeology, architectural and art history, liturgy, and
history to consider the fundamental interaction between the sacred
and the profane. Exploring the establishment of sacred space within
both the public and domestic spheres, as well as the role of the
secular within the sacred sphere, each chapter provides fascinating
insights into how these concepts helped shape, and were shaped by,
wider society. By highlighting these issues on a European basis
from the medieval period through the age of the reformations, these
essays demonstrate the significance of continuity as much as change
in definitions of sacred space, and thus identify long term trends
which have hitherto been absent in more limited studies. As such
this volume provides essential reading for anyone with an interest
in the ecclesiastical development of western Europe from the
thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
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