'Holy, holier, holiest': the sacred topography of the early medieval Irish church
The religious topography of the early medieval Irish church : an historiographical perspective. Enclosure as an expression of an ascetic ideal ; Monastic hegemony : a revisionist critique ; Enclosure as an expression of power and influence ; Enclosure as an expression of sacred identity ; Enclosure...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium
Brepols
2010
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Studia traditionis theologiae (4)
Year: 2010 |
Series/Journal: | Studia traditionis theologiae
4 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ireland
/ Church history studies
/ Topography
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Further subjects: | B
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Influence
B Monasteries (Ireland) History B Church Buildings (Ireland) History B Thesis B Ireland Church history 600-1500 |
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Summary: | The religious topography of the early medieval Irish church : an historiographical perspective. Enclosure as an expression of an ascetic ideal ; Monastic hegemony : a revisionist critique ; Enclosure as an expression of power and influence ; Enclosure as an expression of sacred identity ; Enclosure in a non-Irish context ; Conclusion -- Slab-shrines and oratories : the anatomy of religious settlement within the early medieval Irish church. The anatomy of settlement : an archaeological context ; The anatomy of settlement : a literary context ; Conclusion -- From the tabernacle to the New Jersualem : an exploration of a biblical hermeneutic for the topography of religious settlement. The Bible and the sanctification of space ; The tabernacle and the temple : a textual depiction of sacred topography ; The temple motif within patristic exegesis ; The temple motif within early Irish exegesis ; Conclusion -- And was Jerusalem builded here? : the making of a religious landscape. A Scriptural 'canon of planning' ; An Eremitic inheritance ; An Eremitic paradigm? ; The creation of a religious landscape ; Conclusion |
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ISBN: | 2503533167 |