Shrines In A Fluid Space The Shaping Of New Holy Sites In The Ionian Islands The Peloponnese And Crete Under Venetian Rule 14th 16th Centuries
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Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries), Argyri Dermitzaki reconstructs the devotional experiences within the Greek realm of the Venetian Stato da Mar of Western European pilgrims sailing to Jerusalem. The author traces the evolution of the various forms of cultic sites and the perception of them as nodes of a wider network of the pilgrims’ ‘holy topography’. She scrutinises travelogues in conjunction with archaeological, visual and historical evidence and offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites invested with exceptional meaning at the main ports of call of the pilgrims’ galleys in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.
The Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200-1500
This volume explores the relationship of mendicant men and women to cities and their inhabitants in the Mediterranean world, c.1200–1500. It asks questions including: what was specifically “urban” about the mendicant movement? what does it mean to think of the mendicants as an “urban phenomenon”? and was there anything common to mendicant experiences in the cities of the Mediterranean? In addressing these questions, the volume expands our understanding of the mendicants by offering chapters that examine this religious movement within urban environments from the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Southern France, and Italy, to the Dalmatian Coast, Aegean Islands, Egypt, and the Levant. The chapters treat a wide array of textual, artistic, and architectural sources to consider how mendicants navigated and negotiated the unique social dynamics of Mediterranean cities in their interactions with political potentates, merchants, prisoners, pilgrims, religious and intellectual elites, non‐Christians, and inhabitants of the surrounding countryside. It thus offers an interdisciplinary and broad survey of mendicancy as a social‐religious phenomenon of the urban Mediterranean, demonstrating that these communities can be defined by much more than their traditionally accepted roles as beggars, preachers, and teachers. Mendicants and the Urban Mediterranean, c.1200–1500 will be of interest to scholars and students across multiple disciplines engaged in questions about medieval mendicancy, gender, urban society, inter‐religious encounters, and the Mediterranean.
Die Kathedrale im globalen Christentum
Author: Gustav A. Krieg
language: de
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2024-10-07
Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich dem Phänomen der Kathedrale, denn Kathedralen stellen Referenzbauten in der Entwicklung der Weltchristenheit dar. Im Fokus steht der Kathedralenbau in seinen jeweiligen historischen Kontexten als ein ästhetisches Mittel des Christentums zur umfassenden Welterschließung. Ebenfalls zur Sprache kommen die Spannungen und Konflikte, von denen diese Welterschließung begleitet ist: zwischen West und Ost, zwischen den unterschiedlichen Konfessionen, zwischen christlicher Mission und klerikalen bzw. kolonialistischen Anmaßungen, zunehmend auch die Spannungen zwischen Religion und nachaufklärerischer Säkularität. Abschließend wird die Entwicklung des Dombaus als ein Paradigma der Konfessionsgeschichte für die Folgezeit sichtbar gemacht, und zwar im größeren Kontext des sich etablierenden christlichen Fundamentalismus bzw. eines Christentums diesseits der traditionellen Konfessionen einerseits und der sich abzeichnenden Krisen des Religiösen in den europäischen Volkskirchen andererseits.