The churches of Leicestershire and Rutland represent the history of this area of the East Midlands. Largely rural, their wealth in the Middle Ages came mostly through farming and the wool trade, as well as the largest settlement in the area - Leicest...Loe edasi...
For much of its history Bradford was a small town in West Yorkshire and a local centre for the wool trade. Industrialisation in the nineteenth century transformed it. Textile mills, coal mining and iron manufacturing developed rapidly in the area and...Loe edasi...
The city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the towns and villages of North Tyneside, including Wallsend, North Shields, Killingworth, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay, were important settlements in the medieval era but the shipping trade and growing industrialisat...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The History Press, ISBN-13: 9781837051939)
Even in this predominantly secular age, Britains cathedrals remain potent symbols of religious continuity. Their purpose was to reveal Gods majesty, to declare the supremacy of the Church and the devotion of the men who built them. They were intend...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040519332)
This book examines the adaptive reuse of Roman Catholic churches through twenty-five case studies from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. It addresses the complex intersection of theology, heritage conservation, and contemporary social ne...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Research in Architectural Conservation and Historic Preservation
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040660065)
This book examines the adaptive reuse of Roman Catholic churches through twenty-five case studies from Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. It addresses the complex intersection of theology, heritage conservation, and contemporary social ne...Loe edasi...
Lincolnshire is a large county with a legacy of historic churches. Medieval Lincolnshire owed its wealth - and churches - to maritime trade and wool production and the influence of a myriad of monasteries and its famed cathedral. However, changing ec...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the economy of artificial light in medieval churches across Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the broader medieval spheres. Whether innovative or inspired by the more established Latin and Byzantine traditions, the ch...Loe edasi...
Manchester has always been an important centre in north-west England, but during the Industrial Revolution its population exploded as it became the heart of textile manufacturing in the area. The new city was largely unplanned but in time it became t...Loe edasi...
Jens Bruckner, Vinzenz Gottlieb, Klaus Gereon Beuckers, Andreas Bihrer, Timo Felber
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Brill Deutschland GmbH, ISBN-13: 9783412533724)
Ausgehend von den Libri ordinarii einer Kirche, zeigt der interdisziplinare Band im Spiegel der liturgischen Regiebucher des Ellwanger Chorherrenstifts die Umrisse des benediktinischen Erbes in der Kirche und in Ellwangen. Es konnen mit den liturgisc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Tennessee Press, ISBN-13: 9798895271674)
In Masonic Temples, William D. Moore introduces readers to the structures American Freemasons erected over the sixty-year period from 1870 to 1930, when these temples became a ubiquitous feature of the American landscape. As representations of King...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253074157)
From the fifteenth century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India. Along the way, they built shrines whose poetry, spatial configuration, and materiality created in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253074164)
From the fifteenth century onwards, followers of the Sufi poet Shah Nematullah Vali navigated land and sea routes through Central Asia, Iran, and India. Along the way, they built shrines whose poetry, spatial configuration, and materiality created in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN-13: 9789004753273)
Dravidian art is one of the visible features which defines the South Indian form of architecture. Initially, Gramadevata was the South Indian village deity that was revered, as temples were not prevalent during the ancient times, particularly during...Loe edasi...
The graveyards and cemeteries of Perthshire contain many fascinating historical tales, often with interesting superstitions attached. In this book Scottish historian Charlotte Golledge takes readers on a tour through the history of Perthshires buria...Loe edasi...
Somerset is renowned for its churches, many of which were built on the wealth of the wool industry in this area in the Middle Ages. Bath, Glastonbury and Wells were powerful ecclesiastical centres in this period, but there are many fascinating and be...Loe edasi...
Cumbria is the third largest county in England, formed in 1974 from the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. It is justly famous for the beauty of its landscape but spread throughout the county in its only city, Carlisle, and smaller town...Loe edasi...
Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study develops an anthropological p...Loe edasi...
Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study develops an anthropological p...Loe edasi...
