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The architectural framework for the cults of saints: Some scottish examples
2007This chapter presents an overview of some Scottish churches which had more specific relationships with saints. It considers the ways in which the design of those buildings may be conditioned by a wish to give architectural emphasis to the saints' cults, as well as the means by which structured access to the main foci of the cults was organized.
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From private to public to cult site. The changing architecture of Pagani's toselli
2020The 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.
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Architecture and the assertion of the cult of relics in milan’s public spaces
2004After Trent Borromeo reintroduced the practices of setting up columns with crosses on top at cross-roads, processions for the Sacred Nail and splendid translationes of important local saints. These initiatives are part of ferocious ideological battles on the validity of the cross as the supreme Catholic icon and on the relics of saints as intercessors.
R. V. Schofield, G. Ceriani Sebregondi
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The Physical Setting of Relic Cults: Rome and the Architecture of the Carolingian Renaissance
2000Abstract 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
2000Abstract 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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