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Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores: The Culture of Church Building in Stuart England Through the Lens of Consecration Sermons

Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores: The Culture of Church Building in Stuart England Through the Lens of Consecration Sermons

Morel, Anne-Françoise

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 9004385282
ISBN13: 9789004385283
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 20 2019
Pages: 482
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In Glorious Temples or Babylonic Whores, Anne-Françoise Morel offers an account of the intellectual and cultural history of places of worship in Stuart England. Official documents issued by the Church of England rarely addressed issues regarding the status, function, use, and design of churches; but consecration sermons turn time and again to the conditions and qualities befitting a place of worship in Post-Reformation England. Placing the church building directly in the midst of the heated discussions on the polity and ceremonies of the Church of England, this book recovers a vital lost area of architectural discourse. It demonstrates that the religious principles of church building were enhanced by, and contributed to, scientific developments in fields outside the realm of religion, such as epistemology, the theory of sense perception, aesthetics, rhetoric, antiquarianism, and architecture.

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