| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
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| Contents |
An Asylum Seeker at the Shrine of St. Martin -- Christianity and Sacred Places in Antiquity -- The Study of Place in Modern Historiography -- Insular sources for a Carolingian Debate -- Temple and Church in Bede's Exegesis -- Topography of Holy Places in the Collectio canonum Hibernensis -- Amalarius of Metz and the Meaning of Place -- The Early Career of Amalarius -- Amalarius and Liturgical Exegesis -- Amalarius and his Opponents -- Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought -- The Plan of St. Gall -- The Commentaries on the Benedictine Rule of Smaragdus of St. Mihiel and Hildemar of Corbie -- Place, Penance, and Asylum in Alcuin's Tours -- The Argument of the Letters -- Theodulf on Sin, Penance, and the Topography of Churches -- Alcuin and the Meaning of Penance -- Conclusion: Two Churches |
| Summary |
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Samuel Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire. This debate involved many of the major figures of the era, and at its core questioned what it meant for any given place or building to be thought of as specially holy. Many of the signature moments of the Carolingian Renaissance, in church reform, law, and political theory, depended on rival and bitterly controversial definitions of sacred architecture in the material world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sacred space -- History
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Religious architecture -- History
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE -- Europe.
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Religious buildings -- c 500 CE to c 1000 CE -- Europe.
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RELIGION -- Holidays -- Christian.
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Literature.
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Church history -- Middle Ages
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Religious architecture
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Sacred space
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| Genre/Form |
dissertations.
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History
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012019431 |
| ISBN |
9781137295057 |
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1137295058 |
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9781349433858 |
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1349433853 |
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9781137002594 |
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113700259X |
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1283868091 |
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9781283868099 |
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