Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, And Community (Greek Culture in the Roman World)

Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, And Community (Greek Culture in the Roman World)


Yazar Ann Marie Yasin
Yayınevi Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9781107411630
Baskı yılı 2012
Sayfa sayısı 362
Ağırlık 0.59 kg
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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 religio
Introduction; 1. Churches before architecture: approaches to sacred space in the early Christian world; 2. Commemorative communities: the dead in early Christian churches; 3. Topographies of honor and piety: praying for the Christian benefactor; 4. At the