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Book Whithorn and St Ninian

Download or read book Whithorn and St Ninian written by Peter Hill and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whithorn is the home of the earlist known Christian community in Scotland. This volume attempts to integrate new material with the extant historical and archaeological evidence to produce a picture of the development of the site.

Book Pilgrimage as Transformative Process

Download or read book Pilgrimage as Transformative Process written by Heather A. Warfield and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construct of transformation has emerged as a prominent theme in academic discourse. Based on the accepted notion that processes and living organisms are in an ongoing state of development, it is unsurprising that this concept of transformation would find resonance within literature on the pilgrimage phenomenon. Examples of transformational processes intersecting with pilgrimage are the movement from sickness to wellness, from grief to closure and from fractured to integrated. That the pilgrimage journey itself can be construed as a transformational quest was noted by Winkleman and Dubisch (2005), who stated “Life-transforming experiences are at the core of both ‘traditional’ and more contemporary forms of pilgrimage”. In the current volume, Warfield and Hetherington examine the transformational process of pilgrimage journeys. Contributors are Sharenda Holland Barlar, Anne M. Blankenship, Valentina Bold, Shirley du Plooy, Alexandria M. Egler, Miguel Tain Guzman, Kate Hetherington, Scott Libson, Chadwick Co Sy Su, Kip Redick, Roy Tamashiro and Heather A. Warfield.

Book If These Stones Could Talk

Download or read book If These Stones Could Talk written by Peter Stanford and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed. In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday

Book Sacred Heritage

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  • Author : Roberta Gilchrist
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-02
  • ISBN : 1108496547
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Sacred Heritage written by Roberta Gilchrist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory. This title is available as Open Access.

Book The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

Download or read book The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland written by Stephen I. Boardman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.

Book Cradle of Christianity

Download or read book Cradle of Christianity written by Muzeʼon Yiśraʼel (Jerusalem) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gallovidian

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  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Gallovidian written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building the Modern Church

Download or read book Building the Modern Church written by Robert Proctor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts. A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church building’s social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now. Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.

Book Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain

Download or read book Image and Power in the Archaeology of Early Medieval Britain written by Helena Hamerow and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honor by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered settlement at Flixborough in Lincolnshire; Nancy Edwards describes the early monumental sculpture from St David's in South Wales; Martin Carver reviews the politics of monumental sculpture and monumentality; and Catherine Hills reassesses the significance of imported ivory found in graves. Richard Bailey, Christopher Morris and Derek Craig top and tail the book with tributes to Rosemary Cramp and a bibliography of her work.

Book Kind Neighbours  Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages

Download or read book Kind Neighbours Scottish Saints and Society in the Later Middle Ages written by Tom Turpie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kind Neighbours Tom Turpie explores devotion to Scottish saints and their shrines in the later middle ages. He provides fresh insight into the role played by these saints in the legal and historical arguments for Scottish independence, and the process by which first Andrew, and later Ninian, were embraced as patron saints of the Scots. Kind Neighbours also explains the appeal of the most popular Scottish saints of the period and explores the relationship between regional shrines and the Scottish monarchy. Rejecting traditional interpretations based around church-led patriotism or crown patronage, Turpie draws on a wide range of sources to explain how religious, political and environmental changes in the later middle ages shaped devotion to the saints in Scotland.

Book Pilgrims in the Kingdom

Download or read book Pilgrims in the Kingdom written by Deborah Smith Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places the Douglases describe include: - Whithorn, the cradle of Scottish Christianity - Iona, the place of Saint Columba - Canterbury Cathedral, site of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom - Norwich, the site of Julian's spiritual insights - Bemerton, where George Herbert ministered - Aldersgate Street, where John Wesley felt his heart strangely warmed - Olney, where John Newton wrote Amazing Grace - Oxford, the legacy of C.S. Lewis - Coventry Cathedral, bombed during World War 2 and now offering hope to all Each chapter describes the place and illumines the lives of the men and women associated with the place. Black and white photographs by Joan Myers illustrate each of the sites.

Book Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles

Download or read book Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles written by Kate Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural and political - did those in authority throughout the medieval and early modern era use to project and make known their power? These questions have been crucial since regulations for governance entered society and are found at the core of this volume. In order to address these issues from an historical perspective, this collection of essays considers representations of authority made by a cross-section of society within the British Isles. Arranged in thematic sections, the 14 essays in the collection bridge the divide between medieval and early modern to build up understanding of the developments and continuities that can be followed across the centuries in question. Whether crown or noble, government or church, burgh or merchant; all desired power and influence, but their means of representing authority were very different. These essays encompass a myriad of methods demonstrating power and disseminating the image of authority, including: material culture, art, literature, architecture and landscapes, saintly cults, speeches and propaganda, martial posturing and strategic alliances, music, liturgy and ceremonial display. Thus, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates the variable forms in which authority was presented by key individuals and institutions in Scotland and the British Isles. By placing these within the context of the European powers with whom they interacted, this volume also underlines the unique relationships developed between the people and those who exercised authority over them.

Book Miracula Nynie Episcopi engl

Download or read book Miracula Nynie Episcopi engl written by John MacQueen and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2005 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title concerns St Nynia or Ninian, the earliest named Christian figure associated with the modern Scotland.

Book St  Ninian

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  • Author : Mosa Anderson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book St Ninian written by Mosa Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sunday at Home

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  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 872 pages

Download or read book The Sunday at Home written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pioneers of Scottish Christianity

Download or read book Pioneers of Scottish Christianity written by Roderick Graham and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Christianity come to Scotland? A sixteen-hundred-year-old fog of mystery separates us from the dawn of Christianity in Scotland - but there are some intriguing signposts. Roderick Graham's thorough research challenges the myths. He reveals what Scotland was like before Ninian, Columba and Kentigern and explores the nature of the Christianity that they brought. He seeks answers to the question of Ninian's existence and the arrival of Christianity at Whithorn, why Columba came to Iona, who the mysterious Culdees were, the fate of Kentigern's mother and why Kentigern met with Columba in Paisley - and he unveils the pivotal role of the synod at Whitby in 664.