The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space
The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space (The New Middle Ages) by Samuel W. Collins
English | November 9, 2012 | ISBN: 113700259X, 1349433853 | PDF | 247 pages | 1.8 MB
English | November 9, 2012 | ISBN: 113700259X, 1349433853 | PDF | 247 pages | 1.8 MB
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.