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Housing and Honouring the Saints: English Medieval Architecture and the Cult of Relics

Studia Liturgica, 2020
This article considers the architecture of English medieval churches and how it was affected by its function as a setting for the cult of saints. It looks at the impression which the patrons of medieval buildings were hoping to make on the minds and spirits of those who visited them.
exaly   +2 more sources

Sacred Architecture and Imperial Cult at the Forum of Pompeii: The Sanctuary of the Public Lares Reconsidered

Lycus Dergisi
This paper is part of a broader investigation into the public monuments of the Forum of Pompeii. The contribution offers a comprehensive reassessment of the Sanctuary of the Public Lares, one of the most architecturally distinctive and sophisticated monuments in the Forum of Pompeii, characterized by the presence of an apse, exedras and aediculae ...
Giacomo Casa
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The Cult Complex of Bel at Porolissum. Historical and Architectural Perspective

Ephemeris Napocensis, 2021
The authors are reopening the file of a monument at Porolissum long time ago archaeologically investigated. After the history of research, they are discussing the chronology and the construction phases of the temple, They reject the initial existence of the temple of Liber Pater under the temple of Bel, as no evidence for such a situation exists.
Coriolan Horațiu Opreanu   +1 more
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The Physical Setting of Relic Cults: Rome and the Architecture of the Carolingian Renaissance

2000
Abstract A significant change in the physical setting of the cult of saints in Gaul occurred in the mid-eighth century, with the establishment of Pepin’s new dynasty, which looked back to late sixth-century Rome for architectural inspiration and was responsible for the revival in that city of the architectural forms of the earlier age ...
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Architecture and the Cult of Saints, from the Ninth to the Early Eleventh Century

2000
Abstract In the second quarter of the ninth century—more precisely, perhaps, between 820 and 840, a new generation of crypts associated with relics cults made its appearance. These are characterized by the development of the confessiocontaining the saint’s body: no longer a narrow corridor, as in the ring-crypts discussed above, or a ...
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From private to public to cult site. The changing architecture of Pagani's toselli

2020
The heritage of intangible assets consisting of spoken traditions, rituals, worships, festivals, and craft activities, expresses a population’s culture, defining its identity. Despite the central role it plays in the cultural scene, this heritage is currently at risk to disperse and disappear.
Maria Martone   +1 more
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