Philosophy of Language, Ontology and Logic

The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity

Richard A. Etlin

University of Maryland, College Park

Description

The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity offers a wide-ranging overview of one of the most important genres of Western architecture, from its origins in the Early Christian era to the present day. Including 103 essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, the volume examines a range of themes and issues, including religious building types, siting, regional traditions, ornament, and structure. It also explores how designers and builders responded to the spiritual needs and cult practices of Christianity as they developed and evolved over the centuries. The volume is richly illustrated with 592 halftones and 70 color plates. Additional images, nearly all in color are available online and are keyed into the text. The most comprehensive and up-to date reference work on this topic, The Cambridge Guide to theArchitecture of Christianity will serve as a primary reference resource for scholars, practitioners, and students.

Key Features

• The most up to date and comprehensive overview of Christian architecture, East and West, from its origins in Late Antiquity up to the present day currently available • Explores the development of Christian architecture in tandem with the evolution of Christian liturgy and ritual practices over nearly two millenia • Written by an international team of top scholars

Contents

Part I. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture: 1. Early Christian pilgrimage and sacred landscapes; 2. Domestic architecture and Christian worship in Late Antiquity; 3. Sacred space and sensory experience Late Antique churches; 4. The conversion of Pagan temples into churches in the Late Antique East; 5. Early Christian monasteries; 6. Early Christian baptisteries; 7. The early Christian churches of Palestine and Arabia; 8. Sacred space in Late Antique and Coptic Egypt; 9. Armenian churches of the seventh century; 10. Typology and scale in byzantine church architecture; 11. Byzantine builders: their crafts and materials; 12. Rite and passage in the medieval Byzantine church; 13. Ritual and authority in Hagia Sophia; 14. The Byzantine church beyond the liturgy; 15. Aesthetics and illumination of Byzantine church architecture; 16. Ekphrasis and symbolism in church architecture; 17. Place, time, and text in the monumental decoration of the middle

Byzantine church; 18. Religion in the Byzantine countryside; 19. Patronage of Byzantine churches and monasteries; 20. Byzantine architecture and the monastic experience; 21. Burials and funerary chapels in Byzantium; 22. The architectural setting of pilgrimage in the Byzantine world: learning from

Cyprus; 23. Cultural conflict and cultural synergies: crusaders, colonists, and Byzantine churches; 24. Islamicizing motifs in middle Byzantine church decoration; 25. Symbolism and ornament on Byzantine church exteriors, 900–1500; 26. Early Christian Georgian churches; 27. Medieval religious architecture in the Balkans; 28. Byzantine architecture in Italy; Part II. Medieval Christian Architecture: 29. The legacy of the city of Rome to Christian architecture; 30. East and West in the early middle ages: Josef Strzygowski and the

Orient oder Rom controversy; 31. Basilicas and centralized churches in the early middle ages; 32. Religious architecture in Gaul in the early middle ages; 33. Monastic Christian architecture; 34. Carolingian architecture; 35. Liturgy and architecture in the middle ages; 36. Christian pilgrimage and medieval architecture; 37. Anglo-Saxon church architecture; 38. The Year 1000 and the promise of a new millennium through church architecture; 39. The notion of Romanesque; 40. Romanesque architecture in its regional manifestations; 41. Early Gothic architecture; 42. Gothic and the medieval quadrivium; 43. The architectural metaphor in Western medieval artistic culture: from the cornerstone to the mystic ark; 44. High Gothic architecture in France, 1190–1240; 45. Gothic structure; 46. The Sainte-Chapelle and Paris as the heavenly Jerusalem; 47. Liturgical furnishings and material splendor in the Gothic church; 48. Regional Gothic in Burgundy; 49. Gothic church building in England; 50. Italian architecture in the high middle ages; 51. Spanish medieval architecture: European currents and regional solutions on the fringe of the Christian world; 52. Shared sacred spaces in the Holy Land; 53. Late Gothic architecture; 54. Gothic architecture and the waning of the middle ages; 55. Gothic towers and spires;