Old St Pauls And Culture

Author : Shanyn Altman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030772675
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old St Paul’s and Culture written by Shanyn Altman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old St Paul’s and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul’s and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral’s medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in England’s Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Paul’s, the place of St Paul’s commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Paul’s is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed.

Author : Shanyn Altman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030772680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old St Paul's and Culture written by Shanyn Altman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old St Paul's and Culture is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that looks predominantly at the culture of Old St Paul's and its wider precinct in the early modern period, while also providing important insights into the Cathedral's medieval institution. The chapters examine the symbolic role of the site in England's Christian history, the London book trade based in and around St Paul's, the place of St Paul's commercial indoor playhouse within the performance culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century London, and the intersection of religion and politics through events such as civic ceremonies and occasional sermons. Through the organising theme of culture, the authors demonstrate how the site, as well as the people and trades occupying the precinct, can be positioned within wider fields of representations, practices, and social networks. A focus on St Paul's is therefore about more than just the specific site on Ludgate Hill: it is about those practices and representations connected to it, which either extended beyond or originated in places other than the Cathedral environs. This points to the range of localised, regional, national, and transnational relationships in which the precinct and its people were situated and to which they contributed.

Author : Margaret Willes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300249837
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for over a thousand years, becoming a theater for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip. For the first time Margaret Willes tells the full story of the area. She explores the dramatic religious debates at Paul's Cross, the bookshops where Shakespeare came in search of inspiration, and the theater where boy actors performed plays by leading dramatists. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Churchyard became the center of the English literary world, its bookshops nestling among establishments offering luxury goods. This remarkable community came to an abrupt end with the Blitz. First the soaring spire of Old St. Paul's and then Wren's splendid Baroque dome had dominated the area, but now the vibrant secular society that had lived in their shadow was no more.

Author : Roze Hentschell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588591
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture written by Roze Hentschell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and contested, with multiple functions and uses beyond its status as a church. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices animates the cathedral space by focusing on the every day functions of the building, deepening and sometimes complicating previous works on St Paul's. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a study of London's cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary and historical documents and images, with special emphasis on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It discusses representations of several of the seemingly discrete spaces of the precinct to reveal how these spaces overlap with and inform one another spatially, and argues that specific locations should be seen as mutually constitutive and in a dynamic and ever-evolving state. The varied uses of the precinct, including the embodied spatial practices of early modern Londoners and visitors, are examined, including the walkers in the nave, sermon-goers, those who shopped for books, the residents of the precinct, the choristers, and those who were devoted to church repairs and renovations.

Author : William Benham
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old St. Paul's Cathedral written by William Benham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following book is an attempt to chronicle the history of the Old St. Paul's Cathedral, which was burnt down during the Great Fire of London. At its completion in the mid-14th century, the cathedral was one of the longest churches in the world, had one of the tallest spires and some of the finest stained glass. This book was written by William Benham, a British churchman, academic and author.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Silke Lübbert
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638729605
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Paul's Cathedral from Past to Present written by Silke Lübbert and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,7, University of Paderborn (Institut f r Anglistik), course: London the urban experience, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: When most people think of St. Paul's Cathedral in London the image of Christopher Wren's magnificent classical church rises in their minds, but there was a cathedral dedicated to St. Paul long before the construction of Wren's cathedral. This paper is going to show how St. Paul's Cathedral became what it is today and what a church can be apart from a place for sermons. Cathedrals have always played more than one role in the communities they serve. Their central purpose is to bring people closer to God, but over the centuries they have served as a focal point for trade, as fortresses and sanctuaries in times of war, and as vast status symbols - reflections of wealth and power of the region in which they stand. These functions take on an additional significance for St Paul's, the cathedral of the capital city and also of the nation. Today's Church belongs to the people of the nation. For example, every citizen can be married or have a funeral service in his or her parish church; priests can marry couples without the presence of a civil official; and the General Synod, the Church of England's governing body, is the only organisation outside Parliament that has the power to legislate. Cathedrals are perhaps the ultimate reflection of this inclusiveness. Unlike parish churches, which exist to minister to the people of the local area in which they stand, they are a route to God for the larger community - a place of celebration and mourning where feelings can be shared and the sheer scale and beauty of the architecture, services and music allows visitors to experience the serenity and spirituality that are an essential counterpoint to the bustle of everyday life.

Author : John Schofield
Publisher : Historic England Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848020566
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Paul's Cathedral Before Wren written by John Schofield and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever comprehensive account of the archaeology and history of the cathedral and its churchyard from Roman times up to the construction of the Wren building. The cathedrals which preceded that of Wren come to the surface again, and we can appreciate the cultural and religiousimportance of St Paul's over more than 1000 years.

Author : Nicola Camerlenghi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429513
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St. Paul's Outside the Walls written by Nicola Camerlenghi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul's Basilica, one of Rome's principal churches.

Author : Norris Stanley Barratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outline of the History of Old St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania written by Norris Stanley Barratt and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: