Description
| Product ID: | 9780754657972 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Liturgy, Worship and Society Series |
| Title: | Liturgical Space |
| Subtitle: | Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000 |
| Authors: | Author: Nigel Yates |
| Page Count: | 212 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: religious buildings, Religious buildings, Christianity, Christian worship, rites & ceremonies, Europe, Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Gives an account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant, over this period. This work also includes a chapter looking at the general impact of the Reformation on church buildings. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant, over this period. In addition to a chapter looking at the general impact of the Reformation on church buildings, there are separate chapters on the churches of the Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican and Roman Catholic traditions between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and on the ecclesiological movement of the nineteenth century and the liturgical movement of the twentieth century, both of which have impacted on all the churches of Western Europe over the past 150 years. The book is extensively illustrated with figures in the text and a series of plates and also contains comprehensive guides to both further reading and buildings to visit throughout Western Europe. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-07-22 |