The Church As Sacred Space In Middle English Literature And Culture

Author : Laura Varnam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526143569

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The Church As Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture by Laura Varnam Pdf

This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The book explores what was at stake not only for the church's sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church's status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously - but profitably - dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.

Author : LAURA. VARNAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526132427

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CHURCH AS SACRED SPACE IN MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE. by LAURA. VARNAM Pdf

Author : Shanyn Altman,Jonathan Buckner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030772673

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Old St Paul’s and Culture by Shanyn Altman,Jonathan Buckner Pdf

Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral’s medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in England’s Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Paul’s, the place of St Paul’s commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Paul’s is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed.

Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501734069

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Scribes of Space by Matthew Boyd Goldie Pdf

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space—the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move—underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Matthew Boyd Goldie examines how natural philosophers, theologians, poets, and other thinkers in late medieval Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world. In tracing the causes and nature of these developments, and how geographical space was consequently understood, Goldie focuses on the intersection of medieval science, theology, and literature, deftly bringing a wide range of writings—scientific works by Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, the Merton School of Oxford Calculators, and Thomas Bradwardine; spiritual, poetic, and travel writings by John Lydgate, Robert Henryson, Margery Kempe, the Mandeville author, and Geoffrey Chaucer—into conversation. This pairing of physics and literature uncovers how the understanding of spatial boundaries, locality, elevation, motion, and proximity shifted across time, signaling the emergence of a new spatial imagination during this era.

Author : Louise Campion
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786838315

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Cushions, Kitchens and Christ by Louise Campion Pdf

This book represents the first full-length study of the prevalence of domestic imagery in late medieval religious literature. It examines as yet understudied patterns of household imagery and allegory across four fifteenth-century spiritual texts, all of which are Middle English translations of earlier Latin works. These texts are drawn from a range of popular genres of medieval religious writing, including the spiritual guidance text, Life of Christ, and collection of revelations received by visionary women. All of the texts discussed in this book have identifiable late medieval readers, which further enables a discussion of the way in which these book users might have responded to the domestic images in each one. This is a hugely important area of enquiry, as the literal late medieval household was becoming increasingly culturally important during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and these texts’ frequent recourse to domestic imagery would have been especially pertinent.

Author : Mary Bateman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846581

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Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700 by Mary Bateman Pdf

The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.

Author : Dominic Janes,Gary Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351874038

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Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity by Dominic Janes,Gary Waller Pdf

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation, and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast, contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology and musicology as well as theology.

Author : Philippa Turner,Jane Hawkes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781783275526

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The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, C.800-c.1500 by Philippa Turner,Jane Hawkes Pdf

New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.

Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426619

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Middle English Mouths by Katie L. Walter Pdf

First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.

Author : Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317057185

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Sensing the Sacred in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by Robin Macdonald,Emilie Murphy,Elizabeth L. Swann Pdf

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope, it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual senses, the volume’s organisation emphasises the multisensoriality and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences, refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive, res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses, but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.

Author : Karl Kinsella
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262047746

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God’s Own Language by Karl Kinsella Pdf

How modern architectural language was invented to communicate with the divine—challenging a common narrative of European architectural history. The architectural drawing might seem to be a quintessentially modern form, and indeed many histories of the genre begin in the early modern period with Italian Renaissance architects such as Alberti. Yet the Middle Ages also had a remarkably sophisticated way of drawing and writing about architecture. God’s Own Language takes us to twelfth-century Paris, where a Scottish monk named Richard of Saint Victor, along with his mentor Hugh, developed an innovative visual and textual architectural language. In the process, he devised techniques and terms that we still use today, from sectional elevations to the word “plan.” Surprisingly, however, Richard’s detailed drawings appeared not in an architectural treatise but in a widely circulated set of biblical commentaries. Seeing architecture as a way of communicating with the divine, Richard drew plans and elevations for such biblical constructions as Noah’s ark and the temple envisioned by the prophet Ezekiel. Interpreting Richard and Hugh’s drawings and writings within the context of the thriving theological and intellectual cultures of medieval Paris, Karl Kinsella argues that the popularity of these works suggests that, centuries before the Renaissance, there was a large circle of readers with a highly developed understanding of geometry and the visual language of architecture.

Author : Chantal Bielmann,Brittany Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 9088904197

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Debating Religious Space & Place in the Early Medieval World (c. AD 300-1000) by Chantal Bielmann,Brittany Thomas Pdf

This volume brings together interdisciplinary and multi-national archaeologists, historians, and geographers to discuss and debate religious 'space' and 'place' in the Early Medieval World.

Author : Tim Noble
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666713060

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Liberation against Entitlement by Tim Noble Pdf

Christianity and politics cannot and should not be divided. But in times of deep social division, how do Christians make political choices that aim to build a society of justice and peace, where wholeness and unity reign? With special reference to two apparently very different contexts, Brazil and the Czech Republic, this book delves into this question, suggesting that behind a clash of political populisms, there is a deeper theological conflict. Grace, the action of God in the world, is understood by some as material reward for their giving, and thus as an entitlement to goods, financial rewards, or narrow national interests. For others, grace is a gift of God that always goes beyond any attempt to possess it and enables attention to the other, especially the other who is poor, excluded, and oppressed. What this means concretely is discussed through a close reading of Pope Francis’s Fratelli Tutti. Another world is possible, and this book sets out a vision of what it will look like.

Author : Sarah Hamilton,Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754651940

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Defining the Holy by Sarah Hamilton,Andrew Spicer Pdf

Holy sites - churches, monasteries, shrines - defined religious experience and were fundamental to the geography and social history of medieval and early modern Europe. How were these sacred spaces defined? How were they created, used, recognized and tran

Author : Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789695281

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Digging into the Dark Ages by Howard Williams,Pauline Magdalene Clarke Pdf

What does the ‘Dark Ages’ mean in contemporary society? Tackling public engagements through archaeological fieldwork, heritage sites and museums, fictional portrayals and art, and increasingly via a broad range of digital media, this is the first-ever dedicated collection exploring the public archaeology of the Early Middle Ages.