Keyword Search | Journal Search | Advanced Search | Browse | Libraries/Archives | New Books | Preferences | Results List | Previous Searches | Help | Feedback
  Save/Mail  

Full View of Record

Choose format: Standard format Catalog card Citation Name tags MARC tags
Record 21 out of 114 Previous Record   Next Record
Book Number   000222397
ISBN   Link1842172069
Main Entry   LinkNixon, Lucia Frances, 1949-
Title   LinkMaking a landscape sacred :. outlying churches and icon stands in Sphakia, southwestern Crete / by Lucia Nixon.
Imprint   LinkOxford : Oxbow books, 2006.
Descr.   xi, 180 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliogr.   Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents   List of figures, tables and colour plates -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations/Transliteration of Greek -- Introduction -- 2. Intellectual background -- 3. Individual churhces and icon stands: Description, location, explanation: 3.1. Describing churches and icon stands, 3.1.1. Outlying churches, 3.1.2. Icon stands - 3.2. Location of individual outlying churches and icon stands - 3.3. Churches within settlements: Slopes and edges - 3.4. Otulying churches and icon stands: Location and explanation: 3.4.1. Location - 3.4.2. Explanation -- 4. Landscape study of Anopoli and Frangokastello: 4.1. Anopoli. 4.1.1. Introduction, 4.1.2. Churches in and around Anopoli, 4.1.3. Icon stands in Anopoli - 4.2. Frangokastello. 4.2.1. Introduction, 4.2.2. Location of outlying churches in the Frangokastello plain, 4.2.3. Dating of outlying churches and icon stands in Frangokastello, 4.2.4. Icon stands in the Frangokastello plain - 4.3 Brief comparison of Anopoli and Frangokastello -- 5. Chronological evolution of the sacred landscape of Sphakia, Late Roman - 20th century: 5.1. The late Roman period and the predisposition of the landscape, 5.2. The contribution of the 7th - 12th century: Icons and borders, 5.3. Perambulation and pasturage: Setting boundaries and defining orthodoxy in Venetian Crete, 5.4. Sphakia under the Turks, 5.5. Sphakia in the 20th century, 5.6. Natural and cultural landscapes -- 6. Conclusions: 6.1. Defining and claiming sacred space: The grammar of location, 6.2. Locations and explanations: Spatial and social views of sacred landscapes, 6.3. Recurrent patterns in sacred landscapes, 6.4. Summary conclusion -- Appendices: 1. Recording methods: Studying outlying churches and icon stands, 2. Altitude and site trajectories, 3. Two Greeks assessments of locations and explanations for icon stands, 4. The correlation of outlying churches with archaeological sites -- Catalogue of outlying churches and icon stands -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject - Lib.Cong.   LinkChurch buildings -- Greece -- Crete
  LinkShrines -- Greece -- Crete
  LinkArchaeology -- Greece -- Crete
  LinkSphakia District (Greece) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
 
Holdings   All items
holdings (2)   British School LibraryLibrary Info
holdings (2)   Gennadius LibraryLibrary Info
holdings (2)   Knossos LibraryLibrary Info
Holdings (5)   Only filtered items

Choose format: Standard format Catalog card Citation Name tags MARC tags

Previous Record   Next Record


End Session - Preferences - Feedback - Help - Browse - Search - Results List - Previous Searches - Databases

Note: During regular backups of Ambrosia, which occur between 04:00-05:00 A.M. Athens Time (01:00-02:00 A.M. GMT), the system will be unavailable