Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West C. 300-1200

Name: Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West C. 300-1200
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ISBN: 9780198207948

ISBN-10: 0198207948

ISBN-13: 9780198207948

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Crook

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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…

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List price: $250.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



List of Figures


Short Titles and Abbreviations


Introduction



Aspects of Relic Cults



The Physical Setting of Relic Cults up to c.750



The Physical Setting of Relic Cults: Rome and the Architecture of the Carolingian Renaissance



Architecture and the Cult of Saints, from the Ninth to the Early Eleventh Century



Relic Cults in Normandy and England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries



Relic Cults in England in the Twelfth Century



The Development of Shrines


Epilogue


Select Bibliography


Index