Ann Marie Yasin

Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean

Architecture, Cult, and Community

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the architecture of early Christian churches of the Mediterranean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781107411630
• ISBN-10: 1107411637
• Artikelnr.: 37461946

Inhaltsangabe

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 center of it all? Framing space with saints
5. What saints do in church, part I: focusing communal prayer
6. What saints do in church, part II: community connections.