Sacred Text - Sacred Space: Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales (Studies in Religion and the Arts) - Hardcover

Thomas, Peter; Sterrett, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004202994 ISBN 13: 9789004202993

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Essentially interdisciplinary, this innovative collection of essays - religious case-histories of many kinds from three eras, - explores in depth the dynamic interaction of sacred text and sacred space, forming and reforming through time, to shape and voice one another.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph Sterrett is Assistant Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has published articles examining the unheard prayer in Shakespeare's plays and the playwright's connection to his religious context.

Peter Thomas taught at Cardiff University. He is particularly interested in Stuart court culture, the impact of the English Civil War on literature, and Henry Vaughan, being General Editor of Scintilla, the annual journal of Vaughan Studies and New Poetry.

Review:

'Sacred text - Sacred space' is a fascinating collection, in which a series of absorbing insights into specific moments when space and text jointly established a sense of the sacred are woven subtly into a compelling narrative about how concepts of the sacred have altered between the early medieval period and the twentieth century. - Chloe Kathleen Preedy - University of Cambridge in: Culture and Religion 2012

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9004202994
• ISBN 13: 9789004202993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372