A History of the Church Through Its Buildings

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Cover A History of the Church Through its Buildings Copyright Acknowledgements Dedication Contents List of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1: ‘The World’s Most Miraculous Place’: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre The Approach Jesus’ Final Journey Golgotha Pilgrimage and Worship The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Memory of the Christian Community Constantine and Christian Unity Building Unity The Witness Constantine’s Jerusalem 2: Christianity at the Heart of the Roman Empire: Old St Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican Hill The Approach From Jerusalem to Rome The Site of St Peter’s Basilica ‘On this rock I will build my church’ The Vatican Necropolis and Peter’s Memorial: The Uses, and Abuses, of History Archaeology, Authority, and the Bones of the Fisherman Other Possible Sites for the Tomb of Peter The Building Constantine’s Conversion and the Politics of Empire The Chair of Peter and Romanitas 3: New Rome and the Horizons of Empire: Hagia Sophia in Istanbul The Approach Riot and Revolt in Constantinople The Ceremonial Core and its Elements The Great Church: Hagia Sophia Ceremonial Choreography and the Magnificence of Staging Rebuilding an Ideology and Theology of Empire Ceremonial: Enacting the Ideology of Empire The Fall of New Rome 4: ‘The Third Rome’: The Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin The Distant Prospect Early Contacts with Byzantium The Conversion of Vladimir The Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Kiev Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Novgorod Cathedral of the Dormition in the Moscow Kremlin Architecture and Identity 5: Renovatio Romani Imperii: Charlemagne’s Church of the Holy Mother of God at Aachen The Approach Charlemagne and his Church Historical Background and the Mirror of the Kingdom The Significance of Building Materials Material, Form, and Meaning Ravenna looking East and West The Relationship with Islam The Symbolic Function of the Building The Church and the Kingdom 6: ‘Transported from this inferior to that higher world’: The Abbey of Saint-Denis The Pilgrims’ Approach to the Abbeyi n the Early Twelfth Century The Royal Patron Saints The Eighth-Century Abbey Monasticism From the Material to the Immaterial St Denis, the Martyr Abbot Suger and Reform The Second Crusade The Modern Approach 7: ‘To the increce of oure merites’: God’s House at Ewelme, Oxfordshire The Approach to Ewelme Religious Foundations in Late-Medieval Society, Local and Royal William de la Pole’s Wider Patronage: The Fraternity of the Holy Cross, Abingdon The Church of St Mary, Ewelme, and its Chantry Alice Chaucer’s Wider Benefactions Alice Chaucer’s Chantry Chapel Prayer, the Work of the Chantry The Cost of Salvation Changing Emphasis in Atonement Antiquity in Action: God’s House since the Reformation Church and Society 8: The Western Caliphate and the Christian Monarchs: The Cathedral, Cordoba The Approach Visigothic Spain and Conversion to Catholicism Muslim Conquest Church and Mosque in Al-Andalus Christian and Muslim during the Caliphate The Mosque as Cathedral, and the New Building The Church in Imperial and Modern Spain 9: Ultimate Authority under Attack: The Building of Renaissance St Peter’s The Approach The Sack of Rome by Alaric the Goth and its Aftermath A Holy Roman Empire St Peter’s Deserted: Avignon and the ‘Babylonian Captivity’, 1309–1377 Rebuilding St Peter’s, the Fuse for the Reformation Rebuilding, Reform, and Reformation Michelangelo Moves the Basilica towards Completion 10: The Iberian Empires and the Evangelization of the World: The Church of Sant’Ignazio, Rome Piazza Sant’Ignazio The Painted Ceiling Europa America Africa Asia The Fire of Conversion 11: English Parish Churches Exported: The Crimean Memorial Church, Istanbul The Approach The Holy Sepulchre and War in the Crimea The Pastoral Need for an English Church in Constantinople A Crimean Memorial Architecture and Ecclesiology The Cambridge Camden (or Ecclesiological) Society Architects and Missionaries Building the Crimean Memorial Church Expat Communities 12: ‘A Phoenix Too Soon’ Coventry Cathedral First Impressions Coventry as a Cathedral City Twentieth-Century Architecture and the Church History, Architecture, and the Liturgy The War, Destruction, Reconstruction The Festival of Britain, 1951 The Competition to Rebuild Coventry Cathedral Radical Responses Basil Spence: A Winning Compromise Liturgical Reform The Phoenix Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Bibliography Figure and Plate Acknowledgements Figures Plates Index