Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeSarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer Holy sites, both public - churches, monasteries, shrines - and more private - domestic chapels, oratories - populated the landscape of medieval and early modern Europe, providing contemporaries with access to the divine. These sacred spaces thus defined religious experience, and were fundamental to both the geography and social history of Europe over the course of 1,000 years. But how were these sacred spaces, both public and private, defined? How were they created, used, recognised and transformed? And to what extent did these definitions change over the course of time, and in particular as a result of the changes wrought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, this volume tackles these questions from the point of view of archaeology, architectural and art history, liturgy, and history to consider the fundamental interaction between the sacred and the profane. Exploring the establishment of sacred space within both the public and domestic spheres, as well as the role of the secular within the sacred sphere, each chapter provides fascinating insights into how these concepts helped shape, and were shaped by, wider society. through the age of the reformations, these essays demonstrate the significance of continuity as much as change in definitions of sacred space, and thus identify long-term trends, which have hitherto been absent in more limited studies. As such this volume provides essential reading for anyone with an interest in the ecclesiastical development of Western Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. |
Contents
Domestic Space and Devotion in the Middle Ages | 27 |
The Domesticity of Sacred Space in the FifteenthCentury | 49 |
Altarpiece Wings 1438 Madrid Prado Museum | 58 |
Christ from Nicolas Finet Le Dialogue de la Duchesse à Jesus | 77 |
Private Rooms in the Monastic Architecture of | 81 |
Forbidden Sacred Spaces in Reformation England | 95 |
the Private Chapels of the | 115 |
by John Thorpe T 113 By Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John | 122 |
depicting the founders of the convent Duke Henry of Saxony | 157 |
the Bromholm | 161 |
Photographs and Building Surveys | 169 |
10 | 190 |
11 | 209 |
12 | 236 |
13 | 252 |
The Consecration of the Civic Realm | 277 |
House Chelsea by John Symonds c 1595 Hatfield House Cecil | 126 |
Transforming the Spatial Geography | 139 |
15 | 305 |
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