Life with Durham Cathedral

Author: Arran J. Calvert
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800737807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral. Focusing on the role of sound, light, time, space, building and dwelling, the author argues that Durham Cathedral is much more than just a backdrop to everyday life. Rather, through the constant processes of negotiation and change, it is a fully engaged participant in the daily lives of those who use Durham Cathedral. As such, it is not a place in which life happens, but a place with which life happens.

Medieval Art and Architecture at Durham Cathedral

Author: Nicola Coldstream
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040282555
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 347

Book Description
This book contains fifteen essays that synthesize the documentary and archaeological evidence for the development of early medieval Durham and asses its archaeological potential. It systematically extracts the important aspects of materials related to architectural history of the Durham cathedral.

Sacred Architecture in a Secular Age

Author: Marie Clausén
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317297849
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Having won more than one recent poll as Britain’s best-loved building, the appeal of Durham Cathedral appears abiding, which begs the question whether an iconic sacred building can retain meaning and affective pertinence for contemporary, secular visitors. Using the example of Durham Cathedral, this book sets out to explore wherein the appeal of historic churches lies today and considers questions of how and why their preservation into a post-Christian era should be secured. By including feedback from visitors to the cathedral, and the author’s own very personal account of the cathedral in the form of an ekphrasis, this work seeks to privilege an interpretation of architecture that is based on the individual experience rather than on more conventional narratives of architecture history and cultural heritage policy. Recognising the implication of our choice of narrative on the perceived value of historic churches is crucial when deliberating their future role. This book puts forth a compelling case for historical sacred architecture, suggesting that its loss - through imperceptive conservation practices as much as through neglect or demolition - would diminish us all, secularists, atheists and agnostics included.

A Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Music Manuscripts

Author: Durham Cathedral
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
The organ books and part-books used in Durham Cathedral over the centuries form the greatest part of this collection, those from the early seventeenth century being particularly well known and of special interest to music scholars and historians. In addition, instrumental music is significantly represented here in the donations made by Philip Falle (1656-1742) and Richard Fawcett (1714-1782), both prebendaries of the cathedral.

Cathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600Ð1700

Author:
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271044200
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Great efforts were required to restore the cathedrals following the return of the monarchy and established church in 1660. In Cathedrals Under Siege, Stanford E. Lehmberg brings together political, social, intellectual, and artistic history into a comprehensive, rounded account of an important institution in English history.

Love in Thin Places

Author: David Grieve
Publisher: Sacristy Press
ISBN: 1789590167
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
A beautiful collection of poems inspired by Durham Cathedral and its saints, visitors and pilgrims.

Can Words Express Our Wonder?

Author: Rosalind Brown
Publisher: Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN: 1853119695
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
Can Words Express Our Wonder? is written to help preachers recognizse and put to use the rich array of gifts and resources they have been given for the exercise of this ministry, whether week by week with a local congregation, as an occasional or supply preacher, or at critical times in people's lives at pastoral services.

Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities ...

Author: Charles Knight
Publisher: London : C. Knight & Company
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description

The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past

Author: Martin Brett
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317025148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
Scholars have long been interested in the extent to which the Anglo-Saxon past can be understood using material written, and produced, in the twelfth century; and simultaneously in the continued importance (or otherwise) of the Anglo-Saxon past in the generations following the Norman Conquest of England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume provides a series of essays that moves scholarship forward in two significant ways. Firstly, it scrutinises how the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be reused and recycled throughout the longue durée of the twelfth century, as opposed to the early decades that are usually covered. Secondly, by bringing together scholars who are experts in various different scholarly disciplines, the volume deals with a much broader range of historical, linguistic, legal, artistic, palaeographical and cultic evidence than has hitherto been the case. Divided into four main parts: The Anglo-Saxon Saints; Anglo-Saxon England in the Narrative of Britain; Anglo-Saxon Law and Charter; and Art-history and the French Vernacular, it scrutinises the majority of different genres of source material that are vital in any study of early medieval British history. In so doing the resultant volume will become a standard reference point for students and scholars alike interested in the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon past continued to be of importance and interest throughout the twelfth century.

An Archaeological History of Britain

Author: Jonathan Mark Eaton
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1781593264
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Jonathan Eaton has provided the essential volume for all students of Archaeology, Classical Civilisations and Ancient History by condensing the entire archaeological history of Britain into one accessible volume. ??The Archaeological History of Britain takes us from the earliest prehistoric archaeology right up to the contemporary archaeology of the present day through the use of key sites to illustrate each key time period as well as a narrative of change to accompany the changing archaeological record. The wide range of evidence utilised by archaeologists, such as artefacts, landscape studies, historical sources and genetics are emphasised throughout this chronological journey as are the latest theoretical advances and practical discoveries, making this the most advanced narrative of British archaeology available.