Dawn Marie Hayes

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135860035
• Artikelnr.: 47893160

Autorenporträt

Dawn Marie Hayes

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. Incorporating Conceptions of Medieval Sacred Places
Chapter One: Learned Conceptions of Sacred Place: Building and Body as Two
Facades of Christian Worship in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Chapter Two: History Incarnate: Human Bodies and Ideal Sacred Place in The
Miracles of Our Lady of Chartres
PART II. Mundane and Profane Uses of Medieval Sacred Places
Chapter Three: Earthly Uses of Heavenly Spaces: Non-Liturgical Activities
in Sacred Place
Chapter Four: Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: The
Murder of Thomas Becket
Conclusion: Division and Decomposition
Epilogue: Body and Sacred Place in the Wake of September 11: Resurrecting
Medieval Metaphors in the Modern World
Selected Bibliography
Index