St Peter-On-The-Wall : Landscape and heritage on the Essex coast / edited by Johanna Dale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, Johanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

England--Social life and customs--To 1066.

England.

Essex (England)--Antiquities.

Essex (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : UCL Press, 2022.

Summary:

The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities, and social sciences to uncover the premodern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. In analyzing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-80008-435-8