medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Sounds wonderful.
I tend to define church architecture as mathematical and engineering games that must accommodate liturgy and find approval from the powerful
Does anyone have an example of where liturgy changed to suit architecture?
Conrad
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On Feb 26, 2013, at 2:32 PM, John Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> 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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