Main entry:

Gittos, Helen, author.

Title & Author:

Liturgy, architecture, and sacred places in Anglo-Saxon England / Helen Gittos.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
©2013

Description:

xix, 350 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm

Series:

Medieval history and archaeology

Notes:
Revision of the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2001 under title: Sacred space in Anglo-Saxon England : liturgy, architecture and place.
"Reprinted 2013"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-333) and index.
Introduction -- Creating sacred places in the landscape -- Anglo-Saxon church groups -- Going between God's houses : open-air processions in Anglo-Saxon England -- Anglo-Saxon churches : form and function -- Rites for dedicating churches in Anglo-Saxon England -- Machines for thinking : a case study.

Summary:

Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and Rogationtide, as well as personal rituals such as baptisms and funerals. Drawing on little-known surviving liturgical sources as well as other written evidence, archaeology, and architecture, she considers the architectural context in which such rites were performed. The research in this book has implications for a wide range of topics, such as: how liturgy was written and disseminated in the early Middle Ages, when Christian cemeteries first began to be consecrated, how the form of Anglo-Saxon monasteries changed over time and how they were used, the centrality and nature of processions in early medieval religious life, the evidence church buildings reveal about changes in how they functioned, beliefs about relics, and the attitudes of different archbishops to the liturgy.

ISBN:

9780199270903 (hbk.)
0199270902 (hbk.)
9780198737056 (pbk.)
019873705X (pbk.)

Subject:

Liturgics England History To 1500.
Liturgy and architecture England History To 1500.
Sacred space England History To 1500.
Anglo-Saxons Rites and ceremonies.
Anglo-Saxons Rites et cérémonies.
Liturgics.
Liturgy and architecture.
Sacred space.
England.

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Added entries:

Medieval history and archaeology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285990
Call No.: BIB 226065
Status: Available