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Making a Landscape Sacred (Paperback)
Outlying Churches and Icon Stands in Sphakia, Southwestern Crete
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Pages: 184
Illustrations: 16p col illus
ISBN: 9781842172063
Published: 6th June 2006
Casemate UK Academic
Pages: 184
Illustrations: 16p col illus
ISBN: 9781842172063
Published: 6th June 2006
Casemate UK Academic
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This book examines the landscape in southwestern Crete from AD 1000-2000, using a phenomenological approach. Specifically, the positioning of outlying churches (exokklisia) and icon stands (eikonostasia) around Sphakia is looked at, in terms of spatial and social reasoning. What is certainly clear, is that people choose the location of sacred buildings particularly carefully, so the locations themselves cannot be seen as random. Routes, resources and boundaries are all factors but primarily these locations are symbolic: such monuments mark, protect and preserve the memory of significant locations in the landscape.
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