medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I have to say that Arnold Klukas is a particular bete noire of mine -
I regard just about everything written by him and his acolytes on the subject as
nonsense (at best.)
I know Peter Draper fairly well - I can't recall anything of his on
the Sarum Rite.
John Briggs
On 26/02/2013, James Bugslag <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On consecrating cemeteries and the development of "sacred space", Dominique
> Iogna-Prat, La Maison Dieu, is very good. As far as liturgy and
> architecture are concerned, specifically in relation to the Sarum rites,
> both Arnold Klukas and Peter Draper have made valuable interventions.
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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> Subject: [M-R] Liturgy, Architecture and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon
> England
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Just to report that I am currently reading Helen Gittos' long-awaited
> new book "Liturgy,
> Architecture and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England" (Oxford, 2013).
> She gives an up-to-date account of religious architecture in
> Anglo-Saxon England, which is very good - but she is fantastic on the
> liturgy! I'm not so sure about "sacred places", but she does make the
> point that the concept of "consecrated ground" is anthropologically
> very, very unusual. The practice of consecrating graveyards seems to
> have started in the first half of the 10th century and seems to have
> originated in England (although it may, of course, like so much else,
> have come from Ireland.)
>
> John Briggs
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