The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space (The New Middle Ages)

by SamCollins (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2012

  $147.18

  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.