Author : Lucia Nixon
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Making a Landscape Sacred by : Lucia Nixon
Download or read book Making a Landscape Sacred written by Lucia Nixon and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the sacred landscape of Sphakia, southwestern Crete, during the Byzantine, Venetian and Turkish periods (A.D. 1000-2000), using a phenomenological approach. Nixon investigates the rationale for the positioning of outlying churches (exokklisia) and icon stands (eikonostasia). Because outlying churches and icon stands are still being constructed today, she was able to combine oral, documentary, and material evidence. Spatial factors (resource packages, visibility) are important, as well as social ones (supernatural encounters, human boundaries). Nixon concludes that, as with prehistoric and classical examples, these later sacred structures constitute a system of marking and commemorating places of practical and symbolic importance."--BOOK JACKET.