Sacred text, sacred space : architectural, spiritual, and literary convergences in England and Wales / edited by Joseph Sterrett and Peter Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sterrett, Joseph.

Thomas, Peter Wynn.

Series:

Studies in Religion and the Arts 4.

Studies in religion, 1877-3192 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and the arts--England--History.

Christianity and the arts.

Christianity and the arts--Wales--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in different times and places, between sacred space and text. Essentially an interdisciplinary enterprise, it focuses a range of historical and critical methodologies on that complex process of transformation and transmission whereby spiritual intuitions, experiences and teachings are made palpable ‘in art and architecture, poetry and prayer, in histories, scriptures and liturgies, even landscapes. So the sacred, variously constructed and inscribed, makes itself felt ‘on the pulse’; is a presence, a voice even now not stilled.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Joseph Sterrett

Images of Words: Iconographies of Text and the Construction of Sacred Space in Medieval Church Wall Painting / Madeleine Gray

Anglo-Saxon Monasteries as Sacred Places: Topography, Exegesis and Vocation / Thomas Pickles

The Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew’s Church: Consecration, Restoration, and Translation / Laura Varnam

An Arena for the Holy: The Imitatio Francisci of Margery Kempe / Roy Eriksen

To Great Saint Jacques Bound: All’s Well That Ends Well in Shakespeare’s Spain / Richard Wilson

Sacred Space in Laudian England / Graham Parry

Early Modern Sacred Space: Writing The Temple / Helen Wilcox

The “Desert Sanctified”: Henry Vaughan’s Church in the Wilderness / Peter Thomas

The Abbey-Meditation Tradition: Wordsworth’s Sources in the Eighteenth Century / Dennis Taylor

The Nineteenth-Century ‘Church Catholic’: Liturgy, Theology and Architecture / Allan Doig

Sacred Space as Sacred Text: Church and Chapel Architecture in Victorian Britain / William Whyte

Collector Connoisseurs or Spiritual Aesthetes? The Role of Anglican Clergy in the Growth of Interest in Collecting and Displaying Early Italian Art (1830's–1880's) / Susanna Avery-Quash

Epilogue: Is the Modern World Disenchanted? / Patrick Sherry

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33480-1

9786613334800

90-04-21645-6

OCLC:

769101979