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St Francis Xavier University (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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Remembering Other Beauty: A Framework for an Architectural History from Christian Archaeology to Modernism, 2018
This dissertation is an exploratory study on the interaction of architecture and Christian archae... more This dissertation is an exploratory study on the interaction of architecture and Christian archaeology around the turn of the 20th century. As one of the roots of architectural historiography, Christian archaeology – the largely ecclesiastical study of the remains of the material culture of the first Christians – has had a place in architectural theory from the final decades of the 16th century onwards. It enabled the reconciliation of humanist archaeological interest in classical antiquity on the one hand and Christian apologetics on the other hand. During the 1800s, however, the role which Christian archaeology fulfilled in architecture appears to have been reversed progressively. This dissertation indicates how theorists have debated what ought to be the fundamental aspirations of religious architecture by means of argumentation rooted in catacomb archaeology in the 19th and early 20th century.
Remembering Other Beauty: A Framework for an Architectural History from Christian Archaeology to Modernism, 2018
This dissertation is an exploratory study on the interaction of architecture and Christian archae... more This dissertation is an exploratory study on the interaction of architecture and Christian archaeology around the turn of the 20th century. As one of the roots of architectural historiography, Christian archaeology – the largely ecclesiastical study of the remains of the material culture of the first Christians – has had a place in architectural theory from the final decades of the 16th century onwards. It enabled the reconciliation of humanist archaeological interest in classical antiquity on the one hand and Christian apologetics on the other hand. During the 1800s, however, the role which Christian archaeology fulfilled in architecture appears to have been reversed progressively. This dissertation indicates how theorists have debated what ought to be the fundamental aspirations of religious architecture by means of argumentation rooted in catacomb archaeology in the 19th and early 20th century.