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Liturgy and Architecture From Early Church to the Middle Ages

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Compiled by Allan Doig


Social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and together their study illuminates the study of liturgy. Buildings and their archaeology are standing indices of human activity, and the whole matrix of meaning they present is highly revealing of hte larger meaning of ritual performance within, and movement through, their space. Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture form the early Church to the present, including the most recent debates in the ordering and re-ordering of churches in the next volume that will cover the period from the Reformation to the present day. In the present volume, the excavation of hte mid-third-century church at Dura Europos in the Syrian desert, the grandeur of Constantine’s Imperial basilicas, the influence of the great pilgrimage sites, and the marvels of soaring Gothic cathedrals, all come alive in a new way when thte space is animated by the litury for which they were built. Reviewing the most recent research in the area, and moving the debate forward, this book will be enormously useful to the liturgist, clergy, theologians, art and architectural historians and those interested in the conservation of ecclesiastical structures built for the liturgy.
HB 9780754652724
£55.00
PB 9780754652748
£15.99
Liturgy, Worship & Society
May 2008
Ashgate Publishing Ltd.

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