Lancashire's sacred landscape
By: edited by Linda Sever
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780752455877
Subjects: History; Antiquities; Sacred space; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : The invention of sacred places / Bob Trubshaw; title: Introduction & acknowledgements / Linda Sever; title: Lancashire's prehistoric past / John Lamb; title: Place-names and the sacred in the Lancashire landscape / Sara Vernon; title: Ribchester (Bremetenacum Veteranorum) : place of the roaring water / Nick Ford; title: Fairy and boggart sites in Lancashire / Aidan Turner-Bishop; title: Churches on the landscape : parish boundaries and early church sites as evidence of continuity / Linda Sever; title: Wilfrid's lands? The Lune Valley in its Anglian context / Felicity H. Clark; title: Sacred and profane : contextualising mixed messages on the Urswick Cross / Heather Rawlin-Cushing; title: Norse myths written in stone / Derek Berryman.