The social origins of Christian architecture / L. Michael White.

Main entry:

White, L. Michael.

Title & Author:

The social origins of Christian architecture / L. Michael White.

Publication:

Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press, [1996]-1997.

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Series:

Harvard theological studies ; 42

Notes:
Vol. 1 is a reprint of the 1990 ed. published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vol. I. Building God's house in the Roman world -- vol. II. Texts and monuments for the Christian domus ecclesiae in its environment.

Summary:

Early Christianity seems not to have had a highly developed institutional character. Christians met in the homes of individual members, and there was no such thing as a church building. By the fourth century, however, Christianity had become an official Roman religion, and a new architectural form, the basilica, would soon become the standard throughout the Roman world. In this volume Michael White uses literary, archaeological, and documentary sources to set the architectural history of the early church within its wider cultural context, showing how the change from house churches to public basilicas coincided with crucial developments in the social aspects and religious practices of the emergent Christian movement.

ISBN:

156338180X (v. l ; alk. paper)
9781563381805 (v. l ; alk. paper)
1563381818 (v. 2 ; alk. paper)
9781563381812 (v. 2 ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Early Christian.
Basilicas.
Temples, Roman.
Mithraea.
Synagogues.
Buildings Remodeling for other use Rome.
Architecture paléochrétienne.
Basiliques.
Temples romains.
Constructions Reconversion Rome.
basilicas (works by form)
mithraea.
synagogues (institutions)
11.51 early Christianity.
21.70 religious architecture.
Buildings Remodeling for other use
Frühchristentum
Kirchenbau
Sozialgeschichte
Kerkgebouwen.
Vroege kerk.
Culturele invloeden.
Anpassung
Basilika
Architektur
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich

Added entries:

Harvard theological studies ; no. 42.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192222
Call No.: ID NA4817.W56; ID:97-B3317
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

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