Art, faith and place in East Anglia from prehistory to the present
The relationship between religious or spiritual artworks and the locality where such objects are made and used is the central question this volume addresses. While it is a well-known fact that religious artworks, objects and buildings can have a power or agency of their own (iconoclasm, the violent...
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : On faith, objects and locality / Sandy Heslop and Margit Thøfner
- But where is Norfolk? / Elisabeth de Bièvre
- Sacred image and regional identity in late-prehistoric Norfolk / Daphne Nash Briggs
- Piety from the ploughsoil : religion in Roman Norfolk through recent metal-detector finds / Adrian Marsden
- Paganism in early-Anglo-Saxon east Anglia / Tim Pestell
- Devotion, pestilence and conflict : the medieval wall paintings of St. Mary the Virgin, Lakenheath / Matthew Champion
- "Here Be Dragons" : The cult of St. Margaret of Antioch and strategies for survival / Carole Hill
- The medieval Jews of Norwich and their legacy / Elizabeth Rutledge
- Late-medieval glass-painting in Norfolk : developments in iconography and craft c.1250-1540 / David King
- Graffiti and devotion in three maritime churches / John Peake
- Norfolk wayside crosses : biographies of landscape and place / Nicola Whyte
- Landscapes of faith and politics in early-modern Norwich / Chris King
- Practice and belief : manifestations of witchcraft, magic and paganism in East Anglia from the seventeenth century to the present day / Francesca Vanke
- Provinciality and the Victorians : church design in nineteenth-century East Anglia / Stefan Muthesius
- Maharajah Duleep Singh, Elveden and Sikh pilgrimage / Catherine Hesketh-Harvey
- Supernatural folklore and the popular imagination : re-reading object and locality in mid-nineteenth-century Norfolk / Karl Bell
- Pro patria mori : Christian rallies and war memorials of early-twentieth-century Norfolk / Elizabeth A. Mellings
- Pagans in place, from Stonehenge to Seahenge : "Sacred" archeological monuments and artifacts in Britain / Robert J. Wallis
- Art, spirit and ancient places in Norfolk / Trevor Ashwin
- Sacred sites and blessed objects : art and religion in contemporary Norfolk / Elizabeth A. Mellings