The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-c.1200
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 13 January 2000
- ISBN 9780198207948
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages334 pages
- Size 243x162x24 mm
- Weight 714 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 halftones, 65 line drawings 0
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Short description:
From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores the way in which church architecture has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or `relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints. This is the first complete modern study of this aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
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This book explores the way in which church architecture from the earliest centuries of Christianity has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints.
The Church's holy dead continued to exercise an influence on the living from beyond the grave, and their earthly remains provided a focus for prayer. The memoriae, house-churches and crypts of early Christian Rome; the elaborately decorated monuments containing the bodies of the bishops of Merovingian Gaul; the revival of ring crypts in the Carshingian empire; the crypts, 'tomb-shrines', and later high shrines of medieval England, all demonstrate how the presence of a holy body within a church influenced its very architecture. This is the first complete modern study of this hitherto somewhat neglected aspect of medieval church architecture in western Europe.
The balanced use of documentary and archaeological methods combine with the excellent use of plans and photographs to provide a detailed and scholarly work which will be welcomed by all students of the early Church.
