The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space [electronic resource] /
Collins, S.author.
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.
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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Content""; ""Introduction                   ""; ""1. Insular Sources for a Carolingian Debate                                                  ""; ""2. Amalarius of Metz and the Meaning of Place                                                    ""; ""3. Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought                                                                ""; ""4. Place, Penance, and Asylum in Alcuinâ€?s Tours                                                      ""; ""Conclusion: Two Churches                               ""
""Notes            """"Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.
European literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Literature—History and criticism.
European Literature.
Medieval Literature.
History of Medieval Europe.
Literary History.