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Origins of classical architecture : temples, orders and gifts to the Gods in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9780300182767 0300182767 Year: 2014 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale university press,


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Patrimoine sacré : XXe -XXIe siècle : les lieux de cultes en France depuis 1905
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ISBN: 9782757703441 2757703447 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris : Les Editions du Patrimoine,

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Contrasts : or, a parallel between the noble edifices of the Middle Ages and corresponding buildings of the present day
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ISBN: 1139814516 1108061346 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Among the most influential figures of the Gothic Revival in 19th-century Britain, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin distinguished himself as an architect, author and interior designer. He had crafted furniture for George IV at Windsor, but his greatest triumph was the design and fitting out of the new Palace of Westminster with Charles Barry following the fire of 1834. First published in 1836, Contrasts is Pugin's most famous work, championing the medieval over the modern through satirical comparison of divergent styles. Reissued here in its substantially revised second edition of 1841, the book reflects its author's Catholicism and a developing interpretation of Gothic architecture.


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Housing the chosen : the architectural context of mystery groups and religious associations in the ancient world
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ISBN: 9782503544373 2503544371 Year: 2014 Volume: 2 Publisher: Turnhout : Brepols,

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The aim of this book is to show how architecture can illuminate the functions of religious assemblies of various kinds in ancient society. The architecture of ancient religious spaces has the potential to offer a deeper understanding of the religious groups who used the spaces and the activities they performed there. However, the large corpus of recent scholarship has for the most part overlooked architecture. This book investigates the spatial and architectural settings of mystery cults and religious assemblies from the eighth century bc to the fourth century ad and shows how architecture can illuminate the contents and societal functions of ancient religions. It examines deities whose cults included mysteries and/or were served by religious associations in the ancient world. Chapters treat the old Greek mystery cults of Demeter in Eleusis and the Great Gods in Samothrace as well as those of Dionysos, and the 'foreign' deities Isis/Serapis, Cybele/Attis, and Mithras. The book also treats religions and cults that did not include mysteries but were served by special religious groups, such as those belonging to the Syrio-Phoenician gods, the Jewish god in the diaspora, and the Christian god. The last section of the book combines the typological results from the first section on architecture with the presentation of the cultic functions of religious groups in the second section. This comparative analysis seeks to understand the social and spatial context for the activities of cults with a main focus on the Hellenistic and Roman periods, in particular through distinguishing the differences and similarities in the use of specific room-types.


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Spazio sacro e potere politico in Grecia e nel Vicino Oriente
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ISBN: 9788854872424 Year: 2014 Publisher: Roma : Aracne editrice S.r.l.,

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