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Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe » (New Edition)

Authors: Sarah Hamilton, Andrew Spicer
ISBN-13: 9780754651949, ISBN-10: 0754651940
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: New Edition

1	Defining the holy : the delineation of sacred space	1
2	Domestic space and devotion in the Middle Ages	27
3	The domesticity of sacred space in the fifteenth-century Netherlands	49
4	Private rooms in the monastic architecture of Habsburg Spain	81
5	Forbidden sacred spaces in Reformation England	95
6	Designing for Protestant worship : the private chapels of the Cecil family	115
7	A northern Jerusalem : transforming the spatial geography of the convent of Wienhausen	139
8	Using material culture to define holy space : the Bromholm project	161
9	The liturgical use of space in thirteenth-century Flanders	187
10	'God will have a house' : defining sacred space and rites of consecration in early seventeenth-century England	207
11	'Pure and white' : reformed space for worship in early seventeenth-century Hungary	231
12	Rubens's Raising of the cross in context : the 'early Christian' past and the evocation of the sacred in post-Tridentine Antwerp	251
13	The consecration of the civic realm	277
14	The priest, the Quakers and the Second Conventicle Act : the battle for Gracechurch Street Meeting House, 1670	301
15	La Ville Sonnant : the politics of sacred space in Avignon on the eve of the French revolution	319