The Architectural Setting of the Cult of Saints in the Early Christian West c.300-c.1200
by
John Crook
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN-10
0198207948
ISBN-13
9780198207948
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 13th, 2000
Print length
334 Pages
Weight
666 grams
Dimensions
16.70 x 24.20 x 2.10 cms
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Religious buildingsChristian theology
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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 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.
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