Housing and Honouring the Saints: English Medieval Architecture and the Cult of Relics
This article considers the architecture of English medieval churches and how it was affected by its function as a setting for the cult of saints. It looks at the impression which the patrons of medieval buildings were hoping to make on the minds and spirits of those who visited them. It is not conce...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
[2020]
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Studia liturgica
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 22-39 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Church
/ Architecture
/ Relic veneration
/ Saints
/ Church history studies 600-1400
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| IxTheo Classification: | CE Christian art KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KBF British Isles KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Cathedrals
B Medieval B Architecture B Shrines B Saints |
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| Summary: | This article considers the architecture of English medieval churches and how it was affected by its function as a setting for the cult of saints. It looks at the impression which the patrons of medieval buildings were hoping to make on the minds and spirits of those who visited them. It is not concerned so much with the functional planning issues surrounding access, security, and the management of pilgrims as it is with the symbolic content of those larger spaces within which the shrine and its immediate surroundings are contained and visually celebrated. Plans, forms, and decoration carrying specific associations with prestigious buildings in Rome are considered in relation to some early medieval buildings. The new work at Canterbury, following the fire of 1174, created a new and influential architectural language adopted by other cathedrals in which aspects of the saint could be signaled by architectural detail and decoration. The article ends with the thirteenth-century Chapel of the Nine Altars at Durham as a setting for the shrine of Cuthbert. |
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| ISSN: | 2517-4797 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia liturgica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0039320720906549 |