Sacred monuments and practices in the Baltic Sea region
Subtitle: new visits to old churches
By: edited by Janne Harjula [and 4 others]
Contributors: Harjula, Janne, editor
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781527500242
Subjects: Christian antiquities; Congresses; Baltic Sea Region; History; RELIGION; Christianity
Description: This book represents the outcome of the ""Conference on Church Archaeology in the Baltic Sea Region"" held in August 2013 in Turku, Finland, which, in turn, had its roots in the long tradition of Scandinavian Symposia for Nordic Church Archaeology, started in 1981 in Denmark. During the past few decades, the scope of church archaeology has expanded immensely and can presently be described as a multifaceted field of research. This book represents a convincing testament to this development. Every chapter gives a distinctive perspective on the theme of sacred monuments and practices written by lea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Conspicuous architecture : medieval round churches in Scandinavia  -- Jes Wienberg; title: Danish church archaeology : the potential of redundant churches  -- Nils Engberg; title: Ristimäki in Ravattula : on the remains of the oldest known church in Finland  -- Juha Ruohonen; title: Continuity or change? selecting the sites for early medieval churches in Finland  -- Ville Laakso; title: "The travelling church" of Klaipėda town, Lithuania, in the historical and archaeological contexts  -- Raimonda Nabažaitė; title: The holy cross church of the Rauma Franciscan convent, Finland, in the sixteenth century  -- Tuula Hockman; title: Reawakening medieval tradition : the issue of stone churches in eighteenth-century Finland  -- Ella Viitaniemi; title: The fortified churches in Estonia as a refuge : myth or reality?  -- Kaur Alttoa; title: An unexpected apse, a medieval chancel screen and other finds from the church of Bälinge, Sweden  -- Herman Bengtsson, Joakim Kjellberg and Linda Qviström; title: Rose window : a dream or reality?  -- Anneli Randla; title: Reading the church : a communicative approach for understanding the Dubingiai Parish community, Lithuania, in the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries  -- Rimvydas Laužikas; title: From poor village church to prestige construction project : the dismantling of the medieval church at Mårup, Denmark  -- Thomas Bertelsen; title: Church arsons and arson attempts in Finland between 1990 and 2010  -- Heidi Wirilander; title: Early medieval graves with weapon finds from the polish lands  -- Alina Wilczyńska-Żurawska; title: The cult of St. Olav in the Baltic region  -- Øystein Ekroll; title: Medieval and early modern marketplaces : sites of contacts, trade and religious activities  -- Timo Ylimaunu, Georg Haggrén, Risto Nurmi, Paul R. Mullins; title: An early modern triple burial from the Tartu St Mary's churchyard, Estonia  -- Martin Malve; title: Church art in the late middle ages and its influence on everyday life : devotional clay figurines from Silesia, Poland, and their gothic inspirations  -- Ewelina Kowalczyk; title: Figurine of a crowned virgin Mary and child in Turku, Finland -- Virva Lompolo.