| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Holy Footprints -- Church Consecration -- Trampling Underfoot -- Standing on Ceremony -- Places of Prostration -- Between the Living and the Dead. |
| Summary |
"Discusses the significance of holy ground within medieval Christianity. It encompasses the material and visual properties of the ground including pavement decoration; physical contact with the surface within and beyond religious ritual; and how this shaped the definition of sacred space and the identity of individuals and communities"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sacred space -- Europe, Western -- History -- To 1500.
|
|
Sacred space -- History -- To 1500.
|
|
Space -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
|
|
HISTORY / Medieval |
|
Sacred space |
|
Space -- Religious aspects -- Christianity |
|
Western Europe |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Indexed Term |
Cathedral floors, medieval decorated pavements, sacred space and the floor, pavement decoration and the liturgy, medieval Christianity,. |
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Donkin, Lucy. Standing on holy ground in the Middle Ages Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501751127 (DLC) 2021003020 |
| ISBN |
9781501753855 electronic book |
|
1501753851 electronic book |
|
9781501753862 electronic book |
|
150175386X electronic book |
|
9781501751127 hardcover |
|
