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Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community [Kietas viršelis]

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(University of Southern California)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 362 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 253x180x20 mm, weight: 870 g
  • Serija: Greek Culture in the Roman World
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2009
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521767830
  • ISBN-13: 9780521767835
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Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and CommunityDidesnis paveikslėlis
  • Formatas: Hardback, 362 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 253x180x20 mm, weight: 870 g
  • Serija: Greek Culture in the Roman World
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2009
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521767830
  • ISBN-13: 9780521767835
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Raktažodžiai:
Presents a new approach to the architecture of early Christian churches of the Mediterranean.

This book explores the intersection between two key developments of the fourth through seventh centuries CE: the construction of monumental churches and the veneration of saints. While Christian sacred topography is usually interpreted in narrowly religious terms as points of contact with holy places and people, this book considers church buildings as spatial environments in which a range of social 'work' happened. It draws on approaches developed in the fields of anthropology, ritual studies, and social geography to examine, for example, how church buildings facilitated commemoration of the community's dead, establishment of a shared historical past, and communication with the divine. Surveying evidence for the introduction of saints into liturgical performance and the architectural and decorative programs of churches, this analysis explains how saints helped to bolster the boundaries of church space, reinforce local social and religious hierarchies, and negotiate the community's place within larger regional and cosmic networks.

Recenzijos

'Yasin has a deft command of too-often forgotten places with their difficult archaeologies, especially those from North Africa. She sensitively draws conclusions from tricky evidence from old excavations or now inaccessible sites, and the book provides excellent plans and photographs of buildings which should now become as familiar as Ravenna and Rome She avoids simply reinterpreting familiar sites, but carefully sets out the evidence for the sophisticated ways in which late Romans constructed the sacred in church buildings.' Caroline Goodson, Early Medieval Europe

Daugiau informacijos

This book looks at the architecture of early Christian churches of the Mediterranean.
List of illustrations vii
Acknowledgments xvi
List of abbreviations xix
Introduction 1
Geography and chronology
6
Approach and sources
10
Project overview
12
1 Churches before architecture: approaches to sacred space in the early Christian world 14
Introduction
14
The "placeness" of the sacred: its absence and invention in early Christianity
15
Sacred space ritually and socially defined
26
Early Christian churches as sacred spaces
34
Conclusion
44
2 Commemorative communities: the dead in early Christian churches 46
Introduction
46
Imperial Roman collective burial: commemorating the household
47
Sites of family ritual
54
Collective burial areas: collegial, Jewish, and early Christian
56
Honoring the Christian dead: expanding the commemorative community
61
Commemoration by association in burial churches
69
Hierarchy in early Christian church burial
91
Conclusion
97
3 Topographies of honor and piety: praying for the Christian benefactor 101
Introduction
101
Roman cityscapes and honors: topographies of euergetism
102
Churches as commemorative landscapes: membership, family, and status
110
The prayers of Christian viewers
129
Conclusion
150
4 At the center of it all? Framing space with saints 151
Relics and altars
151
Negotiating spatial complexity: multiple focal points and the visitor's path
157
Altars and saints' memorials in visual dialogue
171
Marking church space with saints' names and images
189
Conclusion
208
5 What saints do in church, part I: focusing communal prayer 210
Introduction
210
Augustine on church burial and reminders to pray
212
Praying for the dead: Augustine's De curd in context
216
Earthly memorials and heavenly patrons
222
Conclusion
237
6 What saints do in church, part II: community connections 240
Introduction
240
Grounding collective memory
240
Structuring time and space: connecting local and cosmic orders
250
Articulating hierarchy, both spatial and social
259
Conclusion
284
Conclusions 286
Bibliography 292
Index 332
Ann Marie Yasin is Assistant Professor in the departments of Classics and Art History at the University of Southern California. She held a two-year Rome Prize Fellowship in the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome from 1999 to 2001 and was named a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. for Spring 2006.