Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Description:

xvi, 372 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Studies in religion and the arts, 1877-3192 ; v. 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Books and places : recognizing sacred sensibilities in the world / Joseph Sterrett -- pt. 1. The medieval sacred. 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 -- pt. 2. Re-writing sacred space in the early modern period. 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 -- pt. 3. Saced text and sacred space in the nineteenth century. The abbey-mediation tradition : Wordworth'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 (1830s-1880s) / Susanna Avery-Quash -- Epilogue: is the modern world disenchanted? / Patrick Sherry.

ISBN:

9789004202993 (alk. paper)
9004202994 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Christianity and the arts England History.
Christianity and the arts Wales History.
Arts Aspect religieux Christianisme Angleterre Histoire.
Arts Aspect religieux Christianisme Pays de Galles Histoire.
Christianity and the arts.
Christliche Kunst.
Christliche Literatur.
Kirchenbau.
Das Heilige.
Kristendom och konst historia England.
Kristendom och konst historia Wales.
England.
Wales.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Sterrett, Joseph.
Thomas, Peter Wynn.
Studies in religion and the arts ; v. 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277346
Call No.: BIB 212139
Status: Available