Texts and Monuments: A Study of Ten Anglo-Saxon Churches of the Pre-Viking Period (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) British)

Pickles, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0860549410 / ISBN 13: 9780860549413

Published by Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 1999

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ix, 316 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 30 cm. Ch. I. Introduction -- Ch. II. English Churches -- 1. The Abbey of St. Mary, Abingdon -- 2. Beverley, monastic church of St. Peter -- 3. Canterbury Cathedral -- 4. Canterbury, Abbey of SS Peter and Paul -- 5. Glastonbury Abbey -- 6. Hexham, Abbey Church of St. Andrew -- 7. A Monastery on Two Sites: Monkwearmouth and Jarrow -- 8. A Monastery on Two Sites: Monkwearmouth and Jarrow -- 9. York Minster of St. Peter, Monastic Church of Alma Sophia, St. Michael -- 10. York Minster of St. Peter, Monastic Church of Alma Sophia, St. Michael -- Ch. III. Gaul -- A. Introduction -- B. Types of ecclesiastical building -- C. Patterns of development: plan and function -- D. Funerary Practices and the Cult of the Saints -- E. Two national shrines -- F. Monasteries -- G. Conclusions -- Ch. IV. Anglo-Saxon England -- A. Introduction -- B. Sites -- 3. Church Plans -- 4. Survey of significant features (forms) -- Texts relating to ten sites in pre-Viking England -- Comparative texts relating to sites in Merovingian and early Carolingian Gaul (arranged in alphabetical order).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Texts and Monuments: A Study of Ten Anglo-Saxon Churches of the Pre-Viking Period (British Archaeological Reports (BAR) British)
• Publisher: Oxford, England : Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0860549410
• ISBN 13: 9780860549413
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Christianity

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Synopsis

Pickles focuses on descriptive documentary evidence, combining it with information from archaeology and surviving structures, historical evidence from Merovingian and Carolingian Gaul, and a number of Anglo-Saxon sites, to reconstruct the seventh- and eighth-century churches of Anglo-Saxon England, assessing influential types and forms.

About the Author

Christopher Pickles