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Morphologies of Sacra Privata in the Roman House: Architecture, Furnishings, Cults

2023
The article proposes an examination of the concept of private sacredness in the Roman world, understood as that set of actions, creeds, and cultic and ritual practices enacted in the domestic sphere by the inhabitants of urban and country homes. Through the enunciation of the elements necessary for the study of this phenomenon, a number of questions ...
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Metaphysics of Natural Light in Cult Architecture

Light & Engineering
This article is devoted to the use of light in the architecture, and especially of cult architecture. For many centuries, people have considered the light of the sun and the flame of a candle to be the best ways to glorify God. The culture of light and its symbolic significance in cult architecture have passed through the centuries.
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Beyond Middleware and QoS – Service-Oriented Architectures – Cult or Culture?

2005
State-of-the-art middleware such as CORBA, RMI or .NET Remoting represents a stack of interoperability layers to connect different islands of code. While all these existing solutions are widely used for the development of commercial and industrial software, they still lack essential features: First of all, there is no accepted middleware standard to ...
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THE “TWO-GATES“ MODEL IN THE THRACIAN CULT ARCHITECTURE

Collection of papers from the Harmony in Diversity Conference Sofia, December 10th, 2025
Most Thracian cult buildings under mounds share similar compositional scheme of one or more spaces, following each other on a horizontal axis, leading to a main chamber. The access to the building is usually through one single entrance. However, in two cases – in the building under Shushmanets mound and in the one near Pomorie, two separate openings ...
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The architectural framework for the cults of saints: Some scottish examples

2007
This 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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Architecture and the assertion of the cult of relics in milan’s public spaces

2004
After 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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Le Sarapieion C : architecture et cultes

2009
International ...
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The Shrine and the Square. Architectures for the myth of martyrdom, from the political cult to the post – ideological era

2021
The commemorations of the centenary of the Great War marked the start of a series of projects to restore the great military shrines in north-eastern Italy. At Redipuglia, in front of the great monument containing the remains of one hundred thousand soldiers, a new permanent installation defines a field, the Campo delle Pietre d'Italia, which is both a ...
Fabio Balducci, Paolo Marcoaldi
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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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