Title & Author:

Foundation, dedication, and consecration in early modern Europe / edited by Maarten Delbeke and Minou Schraven.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Description:

xxiv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; 22

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foundation, dedication and consecration in early modern Europe : an introduction / Maarten Delbeke and Minou Schraven -- Founding an ideal city in Filarete's Libro architettonico / Berthold Hub -- Stepping out of Brunelleschi's shadow : the consecration of Santa Maria del Fiore as international statecraft in Medicean Florence / Roger J. Crum -- Establishing independence : Leonardo Bruni's History of the Florentine people and ritual in fifteenth-century Florence -- / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Pienza : relics, ritual and architecture in the city of a Renaissance pope / Susan J. May -- Founding Rome anew : Pope Sixtus IV and the foundation of Ponte Sisto, 1473 / Minou Schraven -- Means for a projection of 'soft power' : 'Spanish' churches at Rome 1469-1527 / Piers Baker-Bates -- Clash of power and creed : cultural (re)foundations in northwest Africa / Jorge Correia -- Building a sense of belonging : the foundation of Valletta in Malta / Carmelina Gugliuzzo -- St Ignatius of Loyola's "Vision at La Sorta" and the foundation of the Society of Jesus / Alison C. Fleming -- Consecration and violation : preserving the sacred landscape in the (arch)diocese of Cambrai, c. 1550-1570 / Andrew Spicer -- Foundation rites in the southern Netherlands : constructing a Counter-Reformational architecture / Dagmar Germonprez -- Church consecration in England 1549-1715 : an unestablished ceremony / Anne-Françoise Morel -- Ritual and its negation : 'dedicatio ecclesiae' and the Reformed first sermon / Almut Pollmer-Schmidt and Bernward Schmidt -- Midsummer moderns : the foundation of the Paris Observatory, 21 June 1667 / Indra Kagis McEwen -- Importance of beginning, over and over : the idea of primitive Germanic law / Colin F. Wilder.

ISBN:

9789004217577 (hardback)
9004217576 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture and society Europe History.
Architecture Human factors Europe History.
Dedication services Europe History.
Church dedication Europe History.
Rites and ceremonies Europe History.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire.
Architecture Facteurs humains Europe Histoire.
Consécrations liturgiques Europe Histoire.
Églises Dédicace Europe Histoire.
Rites et cérémonies Europe Histoire.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Human factors.
Church dedication.
Dedication services.
Rites and ceremonies.
Architektur
Kirchweihe
Stadt
Gründung
Kirchenbau.
Denkmal.
Stiftung.
Zeremoniell.
Europe.
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Delbeke, Maarten.
Schraven, Minou.
Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; 22.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280730
Call No.: BIB 217739
Status: Available