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The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, ed. Richard Etlin, 2022
The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity offers a wide-ranging overview of one of ... more The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity offers a wide-ranging overview of one of the most important genres of Western architecture, from its origins in the Early Christian era to the present day. Including 103 essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, these two volumes examine a range of themes and issues, including religious building types, siting, regional traditions, ornament, and structure. They also explore how designers and builders responded to the spiritual needs and cult practices of Christianity as they developed and evolved over the centuries. The publication is richly illustrated with 588 halftones and 70 color plates. 856 additional images, nearly all in color, are available under RESOURCES at www.cambridge.org/Etlin-CGAC-webimages and are keyed into the text. The most comprehensive and up-to date reference work on this topic, The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity will serve as a primary reference resource for scholars, practitioners, and students.
The Religious Architecture of Islam. Volume 1: Asia and Australia, 2021
Peregrinations, 2021
https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol7/iss4/8/
Studies in Digital Heritage, 2021
This essay explores the role of Bernardino Amico and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in c... more This essay explores the role of Bernardino Amico and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in cultivating perceptions of the Catholic pilgrimage buildings as worthy of preservation, especially by employing techniques of representation in printed books that engaged with the potential restoration of the real buildings in the Holy Land. The essay discusses the particular example of the printed book created by Bernardino Amico that was published in two editions of 1610 and 1620, with perspectival renderings of the exteriors and interiors of the Christian pilgrimage churches in Palestine and Egypt, along with maps of ancient and modern Jerusalem. Centuries before the emergence of cyber archaeology, Bernardino Amico explored the potential for virtual reconstruction in the realm of printing to demonstrate the value of buildings as symbols of a shared history and faith. In contrast to perspectival representations of ancient Roman monuments in printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Amico's sequential perspectival views facilitate an imagined pilgrimage inside the spaces of complex material buildings, in order to maximize the affective force of the virtual reconstructions. His emphasis on mensural precision and eyewitness accuracy is combined with modifications of the representations in line with the Franciscan understanding of the buildings' histories and related desires for future restoration; in this way, his treatise also exemplifies the potential for virtual reconstructions of historical buildings to blur the boundaries between the empirically observed present, the imagined past, and a desired future.
Peregrinations, 2021
https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol7/iss3/4/
Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques, 2019
This essay explores the most significant set of ground-plans to survive from medieval Europe in o... more This essay explores the most significant set of ground-plans to survive from medieval Europe in order to consider the role of architectural drawings as objects of translation. The architectural drawings are found in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis (On The Holy Places), c. 679–704, and were copied in numerous manuscripts through the thirteenth century. The book represents an adaptation of the Christian pilgrimage into a collective hermeneutic exercise of intertextual interpretation, by means of which the Christian identity of Palestine could be revealed within the monastic communities of Europe.
Books by Kathryn Blair Moore
In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational ... more In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.
Books, Edited Volumes, and Special Issues by Kathryn Blair Moore
The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural tra... more The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. Essays both address major themes across the history of Islamic architecture and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover the history of Islamic religious architecture broadly defined, including mosques, madrasas, saints' shrines, and funerary architecture. The Religious Architecture of Islam both provides an introduction to the history of Islamic architecture and reflects the most recent scholarship within the field.
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The Religious Architecture of Islam Volume 1 Asia and Australia, 2021
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Edited Edoardo Barbieri. , 2019
Book Reviews by Kathryn Blair Moore
English Historical Review, 2020
Journal of Religious History, 2020
suffering with the Messiah. His restored confidence borne out of suffering with Christ are expres... more suffering with the Messiah. His restored confidence borne out of suffering with Christ are expressed in the letters he wrote from prison: Philippians, Philemon, Ephesians, and Colossians. But it comes as a shock to realise that the circumstances of his release from prison are totally unknown and beyond even Wright's ability to craft (see p. 304). Did Paul's friendship with the Asiarchs (see Acts 19:31) play a part? In Phil. 1:13 Paul claims that his innocence was recognised by his Roman guards. That innocence must have been acknowledged in time by a new (?) Roman governor who set him free. Paul remained in Ephesus to write the letter known as 2 Corinthians and the letter to the Romans. Finally with respect to Wright's speculations, while there is no doubt that Paul was intending to visit Spain, whether he was heading for Tarraco (Tarragona), the capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, in part because there was an impressive temple there to the divinity of the emperor (see pp. 392-93), remains a plausible suggestion. A feature of the biography is Wright's commentary on Paul's speeches in Acts and on the letters. His extensive discussion of Paul's magnum opus, the letter to the Romans, is a highlight because of the clarity with which the occasion of this letter and its theological import are articulated (see pp. 316-37). It is here that Wright most clearly explains his understanding of justification by faith (with another foray into the story of Phinehas) as trust in God's covenant faithfulness that has now been decisively expressed in the Christ-event (see pp. 328-29). Jews and Gentiles alike, through faith, reach out and grasp the promise of God's renewal of creation that has already begun with the resurrection of Christ from the dead. Readers expecting the book to engage explicitly with scholars will be disappointed. Such engagement is not Wright's intention, as he explains in the Preface. Those wanting to access such an engagement would be better served, as Wright himself counsels, by reading his Paul and His Recent Interpreters (London: SPCK, 2015) or his earlier monographs. If Wright sets out to search for the man behind the texts, he has, in my view, succeeded admirably. His depiction of Paul as a human being rings true as does his presentation of the motivation of the Apostle. The final chapter, "The Challenge of Paul," is presented as an integrated biographical distillation of the apostle's life and his thought. It is an extraordinarily rich and persuasive climax to the book. Paul: A Biography is a joy to read. But more than that, this is a biography that inspires.
American Historical Review, 2018
The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity, ed. Richard Etlin, 2022
The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity offers a wide-ranging overview of one of ... more The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity offers a wide-ranging overview of one of the most important genres of Western architecture, from its origins in the Early Christian era to the present day. Including 103 essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, these two volumes examine a range of themes and issues, including religious building types, siting, regional traditions, ornament, and structure. They also explore how designers and builders responded to the spiritual needs and cult practices of Christianity as they developed and evolved over the centuries. The publication is richly illustrated with 588 halftones and 70 color plates. 856 additional images, nearly all in color, are available under RESOURCES at www.cambridge.org/Etlin-CGAC-webimages and are keyed into the text. The most comprehensive and up-to date reference work on this topic, The Cambridge Guide to the Architecture of Christianity will serve as a primary reference resource for scholars, practitioners, and students.
The Religious Architecture of Islam. Volume 1: Asia and Australia, 2021
Peregrinations, 2021
https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol7/iss4/8/
Studies in Digital Heritage, 2021
This essay explores the role of Bernardino Amico and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in c... more This essay explores the role of Bernardino Amico and the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in cultivating perceptions of the Catholic pilgrimage buildings as worthy of preservation, especially by employing techniques of representation in printed books that engaged with the potential restoration of the real buildings in the Holy Land. The essay discusses the particular example of the printed book created by Bernardino Amico that was published in two editions of 1610 and 1620, with perspectival renderings of the exteriors and interiors of the Christian pilgrimage churches in Palestine and Egypt, along with maps of ancient and modern Jerusalem. Centuries before the emergence of cyber archaeology, Bernardino Amico explored the potential for virtual reconstruction in the realm of printing to demonstrate the value of buildings as symbols of a shared history and faith. In contrast to perspectival representations of ancient Roman monuments in printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Amico's sequential perspectival views facilitate an imagined pilgrimage inside the spaces of complex material buildings, in order to maximize the affective force of the virtual reconstructions. His emphasis on mensural precision and eyewitness accuracy is combined with modifications of the representations in line with the Franciscan understanding of the buildings' histories and related desires for future restoration; in this way, his treatise also exemplifies the potential for virtual reconstructions of historical buildings to blur the boundaries between the empirically observed present, the imagined past, and a desired future.
Peregrinations, 2021
https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol7/iss3/4/
Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques, 2019
This essay explores the most significant set of ground-plans to survive from medieval Europe in o... more This essay explores the most significant set of ground-plans to survive from medieval Europe in order to consider the role of architectural drawings as objects of translation. The architectural drawings are found in Adomnán's De Locis Sanctis (On The Holy Places), c. 679–704, and were copied in numerous manuscripts through the thirteenth century. The book represents an adaptation of the Christian pilgrimage into a collective hermeneutic exercise of intertextual interpretation, by means of which the Christian identity of Palestine could be revealed within the monastic communities of Europe.
In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational ... more In the absence of the bodies of Christ and Mary, architecture took on a special representational role during the Christian Middle Ages, marking out sites associated with the bodily presence of the dominant figures of the religion. Throughout this period, buildings were reinterpreted in relation to the mediating role of textual and pictorial representations that shaped the pilgrimage experience across expansive geographies. In this study, Kathryn Blair Moore challenges fundamental ideas within architectural history regarding the origins and significance of European recreations of buildings in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth. From these conceptual foundations, she traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.
The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural tra... more The Religious Architecture of Islam is a wide-ranging multi-author study of the architectural traditions associated with the religion of Islam across the globe. Essays both address major themes across the history of Islamic architecture and provide more focused studies of developments unique to specific regions and historical periods. The essays cover the history of Islamic religious architecture broadly defined, including mosques, madrasas, saints' shrines, and funerary architecture. The Religious Architecture of Islam both provides an introduction to the history of Islamic architecture and reflects the most recent scholarship within the field.
https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503589367-1
The Religious Architecture of Islam Volume 1 Asia and Australia, 2021
http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod\_id=IS-9782503589350-1
Edited Edoardo Barbieri. , 2019
English Historical Review, 2020
Journal of Religious History, 2020
suffering with the Messiah. His restored confidence borne out of suffering with Christ are expres... more suffering with the Messiah. His restored confidence borne out of suffering with Christ are expressed in the letters he wrote from prison: Philippians, Philemon, Ephesians, and Colossians. But it comes as a shock to realise that the circumstances of his release from prison are totally unknown and beyond even Wright's ability to craft (see p. 304). Did Paul's friendship with the Asiarchs (see Acts 19:31) play a part? In Phil. 1:13 Paul claims that his innocence was recognised by his Roman guards. That innocence must have been acknowledged in time by a new (?) Roman governor who set him free. Paul remained in Ephesus to write the letter known as 2 Corinthians and the letter to the Romans. Finally with respect to Wright's speculations, while there is no doubt that Paul was intending to visit Spain, whether he was heading for Tarraco (Tarragona), the capital of Hispania Tarraconensis, in part because there was an impressive temple there to the divinity of the emperor (see pp. 392-93), remains a plausible suggestion. A feature of the biography is Wright's commentary on Paul's speeches in Acts and on the letters. His extensive discussion of Paul's magnum opus, the letter to the Romans, is a highlight because of the clarity with which the occasion of this letter and its theological import are articulated (see pp. 316-37). It is here that Wright most clearly explains his understanding of justification by faith (with another foray into the story of Phinehas) as trust in God's covenant faithfulness that has now been decisively expressed in the Christ-event (see pp. 328-29). Jews and Gentiles alike, through faith, reach out and grasp the promise of God's renewal of creation that has already begun with the resurrection of Christ from the dead. Readers expecting the book to engage explicitly with scholars will be disappointed. Such engagement is not Wright's intention, as he explains in the Preface. Those wanting to access such an engagement would be better served, as Wright himself counsels, by reading his Paul and His Recent Interpreters (London: SPCK, 2015) or his earlier monographs. If Wright sets out to search for the man behind the texts, he has, in my view, succeeded admirably. His depiction of Paul as a human being rings true as does his presentation of the motivation of the Apostle. The final chapter, "The Challenge of Paul," is presented as an integrated biographical distillation of the apostle's life and his thought. It is an extraordinarily rich and persuasive climax to the book. Paul: A Biography is a joy to read. But more than that, this is a biography that inspires.
American Historical Review, 2018
Zograf, 2018
In her groundbreaking book, The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land, Moore examines the recep... more In her groundbreaking book, The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land, Moore examines the reception of the architecture of the Holy Land within broad religious and political contexts.
