Fæstninger, magasiner og symboler - Østersøens flertydige kirker
Wienberg, Jes LU
(2000)
In META: Medeltidsarkeologisk tidskrift
p.26-58
- Abstract
- Källa on Öland is used as a point of departure in a discussion of the so-called defensive churches or multi-functional churches at the Baltic Sea. The categorization of medieval society into four separate spheres, the church, the castle, the town and the countryside, is criticised as having created a heterogenous group of deviant churches. The deviant churches have been interpreted in three competitive perspectives: 1) defense, 2) profane function and 3) symbolic form. However, to understand the deviant churches it is necessary to combine the perspectives. The multi-functional churches represented a fusion, where the sacred and the profane were integrated. The whole point was, that a broad specter of functions such as hostelry, residence... (More)
- Källa on Öland is used as a point of departure in a discussion of the so-called defensive churches or multi-functional churches at the Baltic Sea. The categorization of medieval society into four separate spheres, the church, the castle, the town and the countryside, is criticised as having created a heterogenous group of deviant churches. The deviant churches have been interpreted in three competitive perspectives: 1) defense, 2) profane function and 3) symbolic form. However, to understand the deviant churches it is necessary to combine the perspectives. The multi-functional churches represented a fusion, where the sacred and the profane were integrated. The whole point was, that a broad specter of functions such as hostelry, residence and store were made sacred by being integrated in the church building or church yard. Most of the multi-functional churches at the Baltic Sea belong to the period c. 1170-1240 and might be connected to the Danish empire, the crusades and the Saint Canute Guilds. When peace broke down in the 1240s, some of the multi-functional churches were symbolically fortified as also several towns and many manors. (Less)
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- author
- Wienberg, Jes
LU
- organization
- alternative title
- Fortresses, Storehouses and Symbols - ambiguous churches of the Baltic Sea
- publishing date
- 2000
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Medieval churches, crusades
- in
- META: Medeltidsarkeologisk tidskrift
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 26 - 58
- publisher
- Medeltidsarkeologiska föreningen
- ISSN
- 0348-7903
- language
- Danish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 87edcf59-3d11-4756-978f-9606672d9501 (old id 161533)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 16:48:03
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 15:16:22
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