Sacred space in early modern Europe / edited by Will Coster and Andrew Spicer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coster, Will, 1963-

Spicer, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacred space--Europe--History.

Sacred space.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The medieval landscape was marked by many sacred sites - churches and chapels, pilgrimage sites, holy wells - places where the spiritual and temporal worlds coincided. Although Max Weber argued that the Reformation brought about the 'disenchantment of the world', this volume explores the many dimensions of sacred space during and after the religious upheavals of the early modern period. The chapters examine the subject not only through a variety of contexts across Europe from Scotland to Moldavia, but also across the religious spectrum of the Catholic, Orthodox, Lutheran and Calvinist churches. Based on original research, these essays provide new insights into the definition and understanding of sanctity in the post-Reformation era and make an important contribution to the study of sacred space.

Contents:

1 Introduction: the dimensions of sacred space in Reformation Europe / Will Coster, Andrew Spicer 1

2 Sacred church and worldly tavern: reassessing an early modern divide / Beat Kumin 17

3 Sacred image and sacred space in Lutheran Germany / Bridget Heal 39

4 Places of sanctification: the liturgical sacrality of Genevan Reformed churches, 1535-1566 / Christian Grosse 60

5 'What kinde of house a kirk is': conventicles, consecrations and the concept of sacred space in post-Reformation Scotland / Andrew Spicer 81

6 Psalms, groans and dogwhippers: the soundscape of worship in the English parish church, 1547-1642 / John Craig 104

7 A microcosm of community: burial, space and society in Chester, 1598 to 1633 / Will Coster 124

8 Apud ecclesia: church burial and the development of funerary rooms in Moldavia / Maria Craciun 144

9 Reading Rome as a sacred landscape, c. 1586-1635 / Simon Ditchfield 167

10 Gardening for God: Carmelite deserts and the sacralisation of natural space in Counter-Reformation Spain / Trevor Johnson 193

11 Holywell: contesting sacred space in post-Reformation Wales / Alexandra Walsham 211

12 The sacred space of Julien Maunoir: the re-Christianising of the landscape in seventeenth-century Brittany / Elizabeth Tingle 237

13 Sacralising space: reclaiming civic culture in early modern France / Amanda Eurich 259

14 Breaking images and building bridges: the making of sacred space in early modern Bohemia / Howard Louthan 282

15 Mapping the boundaries of confession: space and urban religious life in the diocese of Augsburg, 1648-1750 / Duane J. Corpis 302.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521824877

OCLC:

56111801

Publisher Number:

9780521824873

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