Liturgy, architecture, and sacred places in Anglo-Saxon England

Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as...

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Autor principal: Gittos, Helen 1974- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013
En:Año: 2013
Edición:1. ed.
Colección / Revista:Medieval history and archaeology
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B England / Sanctuary / Church building / Ritual / Liturgy / History 500-1100
Otras palabras clave:B Anglo-Saxons Rites and ceremonies
B Liturgy and architecture England History To 1500
B Sacred space England History To 1500
B Liturgy and architecture (England) History To 1500
B Liturgics England History To 1500
B Liturgics (England) History To 1500
B Sacred Space (England) History To 1500
B Anglo-Saxons Rites and ceremonies
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Sumario:Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as baptisms and funerals. Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as other written evidence, archaeology, and architecture, she considers the architectural context in which such rites were performed. The research in this book has implications for a wide range of topics, such as: how liturgy was written and disseminated in the early Middle Ages, when Christian cemeteries first began to be consecrated, how the form of Anglo-Saxon monasteries changed over time and how they were used, the centrality and nature of processions in early medieval religious life, the evidence church buildings reveal about changes in how they functioned, beliefs about relics, and the attitudes of different archbishops to the liturgy
Notas:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0199270902