| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 372 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Series |
Studies in religion and the arts, 1877-3192 ; v. 4 |
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Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 4.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; Part One The Medieval Sacred; Images of Words: Iconographies of Text and the Construction of Sacred Space in Medieval Church Wall Painting; Anglo-Saxon Monasteries as Sacred Places: Topography, Exegesis and Vocation; The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's Church: Consecration, Restoration, and Translation; An Arena for the Holy: The Imitatio Francisci of Margery Kempe; Part Two Re-Writing Sacred Space in the Early Modern Period; To Great Saint Jacques Bound: All's Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare's Spain |
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Sacred Space in Laudian EnglandEarly Modern Sacred Space: Writing The Temple; The "Desert Sanctified": Henry Vaughan's Church in the Wilderness; Part Three Sacred Text and Sacred Space in the Nineteenth Century; The Abbey-Meditation Tradition: Wordsworth's Sources in the Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth-Century 'Church Catholic': Liturgy, Theology and Architecture; Sacred Space as Sacred Text: Church and Chapel Architecture in Victorian Britain |
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Collector Connoisseurs or Spiritual Aesthetes? The Role of Anglican Clergy in the Growth of Interest in Collecting and Displaying Early Italian Art (1830s-1880s)Epilogue: Is the Modern World Disenchanted?; Index; Plates |
| Summary |
Essentially interdisciplinary, this innovative collection of essays - religious case-histories of many kinds from three eras, - explores in depth the dynamic interaction of sacred text and sacred space, forming and reforming through time, to shape and voice one another |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Christianity and the arts -- England -- History
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Christianity and the arts -- Wales -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
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Christianity and the arts
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England
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Wales
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sterrett, Joseph
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Thomas, Peter Wynn.
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| LC no. |
2011034521 |
| ISBN |
9004216456 |
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9789004216457 |
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1283334801 |
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9781283334808 |
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