Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 February 2013
- ISBN 9780199270903
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 249x178x23 mm
- Weight 890 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 87 black and white images 0
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Short description:
One of the first studies to consider how church rituals were performed in Anglo-Saxon England. Brings together evidence from written, archaeological, and architectural sources. It will be of particular interest to architectural specialists keen to know more about liturgy, and church historians who would like to learn more about architecture.
MoreLong description:
Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as baptisms and funerals. Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as other written evidence, archaeology, and architecture, she considers the architectural context in which such rites were performed.
The research in this book has implications for a wide range of topics, such as: how liturgy was written and disseminated in the early Middle Ages, when Christian cemeteries first began to be consecrated, how the form of Anglo-Saxon monasteries changed over time and how they were used, the centrality and nature of processions in early medieval religious life, the evidence church buildings reveal about changes in how they functioned, beliefs about relics, and the attitudes of different archbishops to the liturgy. Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England will be of particular interest to architectural specialists wanting to know more about liturgy, and church historians keen to learn more about architecture, as well as those with a more general interest in the early Middle Ages and in church buildings.
a deeply thoughtful and important volume that brings together divergent and disparate sources, and combines them into a persuasive and well-argued whole it is certainly a masterful introduction to the subject, adding an important new perspective to the Anglo-Saxon sacred place. It is of great value to historians and archaeologists alike.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Creating sacred places in the landscape
Anglo-Saxon church groups
Going between God's houses: open-air processions in Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon churches: form and function
Rites for dedicating churches in Anglo-Saxon England
Machines for thinking: a case study
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index
