The Carolingian debate over sacred space [electronic resource] / Samuel W. Collins.
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Samuel Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the eccles...
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Table of Contents:
- An Asylum Seeker at the Shrine of St. Martin
- Christianity and Sacred Places in Antiquity
- The Study of Place in Modern Historiography
- Insular sources for a Carolingian Debate
- Temple and Church in Bede's Exegesis
- Topography of Holy Places in the Collectio canonum Hibernensis
- Amalarius of Metz and the Meaning of Place
- The Early Career of Amalarius
- Amalarius and Liturgical Exegesis
- Amalarius and his Opponents
- Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought
- The Plan of St. Gall
- The Commentaries on the Benedictine Rule of Smaragdus of St. Mihiel and Hildemar of Corbie
- Place, Penance, and Asylum in Alcuin's Tours
- The Argument of the Letters
- Theodulf on Sin, Penance, and the Topography of Churches
- Alcuin and the Meaning of Penance
- Conclusion: Two Churches.