The Dynamics of Pilgrimage

The Dynamics of Pilgrimage

Author: Dee Dyas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 100019888X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book offers a systematic, chronological analysis of the role played by the human senses in experiencing pilgrimage and sacred places, past and present. It thus addresses two major gaps in the existing literature, by providing a broad historical narrative against which patterns of continuity and change can be more meaningfully discussed, and focusing on the central, but curiously neglected, area of the core dynamics of pilgrim experience. Bringing together the still-developing fields of Pilgrimage Studies and Sensory Studies in a historically framed conversation, this interdisciplinary study traces the dynamics of pilgrimage and engagement with holy places from the beginnings of the Judaeo-Christian tradition to the resurgence of interest evident in twenty-first century England. Perspectives from a wide range of disciplines, from history to neuroscience, are used to examine themes including sacred sites in the Bible and Early Church; pilgrimage and holy places in early and later medieval England; the impact of the English Reformation; revival of pilgrimage and sacred places during the nineteenth and twentieth Centuries; and the emergence of modern place-centred, popular 'spirituality'. Addressing the resurgence of pilgrimage and its persistent link to the attachment of meaning to place, this book will be a key reference for scholars of Pilgrimage Studies, History of Religion, Religious Studies, Sensory Studies, Medieval Studies, and Early Modern Studies.


Empire of Sentiment

Empire of Sentiment

Author: Joanna Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-18

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1107198518

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An innovative study proposing a new history of the British Empire in Africa by exploring the emotion culture of imperialism.


The Grand Designer

The Grand Designer

Author: Rosemary Hannah

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2012-07-30

Total Pages: 709

ISBN-13: 085790227X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When the third Marquess of Bute (1847 - 1900) met the renowned Gothic designer William Burges it marked the start of a lifetime's collaboration with architects and artists, producing work ranging from the High Victorian Gothic exuberance of Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch to the ostentation of Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute and the sumptuous restoration of the Renaissance Falkland Palace. This fascinating biography tells the story of a rich eccentric, whose learning, insight and kindness produced extraordinary results in architecture and life, a man who combined being amongst the richest men of the age with artistic patronage of an almost incomprehensible scale.


Diary

Diary

Author: Robert Francis Kilvert

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK


David Livingstone

David Livingstone

Author: Sarah Worden (Museum curator)

Publisher: National Museums of Scotland

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Exhibition book of essays and objects celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great African explorer and missionary doctor, the Victorian hero David Livingstone.