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Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive? Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life - the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking - may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms. Through critical readings of central texts and authors - such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan - as well as less canonical examples - the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets - the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.

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The development of Kushite concepts of order in the state and the cosmos forms the focus of László Török’s latest volume. Taking a wide variety of textual and iconographical evidence as his points of departure, the author sheds light on the formation of, and interaction between basic concepts such as inhabited space, sacred space, sacred landscape, historical memory and political legitimacy. The author traces this development by discussing the royal and temple texts, urban architecture, the structure of temple iconography, and the relationship between the society and the temples as places of popular worship, archives of historical memory, and centres of cultural identity.This volume presents the first comprehensive study on the subject.

Sacred space --- -Temples --- -Architecture --- Church architecture --- Religious institutions --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Nubia --- -Nubia --- -Antiquities --- Civilization --- Temples --- Architecture --- Nūbah --- نوبة --- بلاد النوبة --- Antiquities. --- Civilization. --- Antiquities --- Religious architecture

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In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, 'geographia sacra' is analyzed in the context of antiquarian scholarship. Equipped with newly-developed sophisticated tools, scholars compiled, measured, and meticulously documented biblical and ecclesiastical space. On the other hand, this study argues, 'geographia sacra' was never detached from present concerns, and took part in confessional debates over scriptural authority, papal legitimacy, and the authenticity of liturgy. Hence today’s interest in the notions of ‘sacred space’ and spatiality had a lively, controversial, and crucial precedent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions , 2

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"De la fin du ixe au XIIIe siècle a lieu en Occident un processus de séparation des pouvoirs aristocratiques laïques et ecclésiastiques, en lien avec la réforme grégorienne, tandis que l'on assiste également à un phénomène de spatialisation, puis de territorialisation, du pouvoir. Si ces thématiques sont au coeur de nombreuses recherches actuelles, les chercheurs francophones et germanophones les comprennent très différemment. Ainsi, à l'inverse des Français, les Allemands ne se sont quasiment pas, après 1945, intéressés aux problèmes spatiaux : le terme allemand Territorialisierung, qui recouvre l'idée que le pouvoir des aristocrates ait pu être fondé sur un principe territorial et reposer sur des espaces aux frontières plus ou moins bien définies, n'est utilisé que pour décrire des phénomènes à partir de la fin du XIIe siècle. Ce volume réunit donc les textes de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses issus des deux rives du Rhin afin de comparer ces approches à partir de l'étude de l'élaboration de nouveaux modèles de domination spatiale dans les royaumes de France et de Germanie. Ils s'intéressent de manière concrète à l'intrication des espaces laïques et ecclésiastiques, aux formes et aux enjeux des zones d'interface entre ces deux mondes, aux conflits et aux interactions résultant de leurs délimitations. Cela doit permettre de dépasser les traditions historiographiques nationales pour susciter de nouvelles approches comparatistes et ainsi créer les conditions d'un dialogue renouvelé."--Page 4 of cover.

Géographie ecclésiastique --- Religion et politique --- Espace politique --- Privilèges et immunités ecclésiastiques --- Seigneuries --- Christian church history --- History of Europe --- anno 800-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- Sacred space --- Church history --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Christianity --- History --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- France --- Germany --- Church history.

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Time and space can take on a sacred nature in both Judaism and Christianity accompanied by a permanent critical attitude towards the sacred. Conceptions of sacredness imply a conception of community and of society at large. This study investigates the different attitudes toward sacred time and space from an interdisciplinary perspective, ranging from the Biblical period through Qumran, Patristics, Rabbinics, archaeology and theology to modern and even to post-modern rituals. This approach offers a fascinating insight into both the common heritage of Judaism and Christianity and their mutual differences.

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