Fortresses, Storehouses and Symbols - ambiguous churches of the Baltic Sea
Wienberg, Jes LU
(2004)
In Culture clash or compromise
8.
p.35-50
- Abstract
- Fortresses, Storehouses and Symbols - ambiguous churches of the Baltic Sea: 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... (More)
- Fortresses, Storehouses and Symbols - ambiguous churches of the Baltic Sea: 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
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- publishing date
- 2004
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Medieval churches, crusades
- host publication
- Der Ostseeraum und Kontinentaleuropa 1100-1600 : Einflussnahme - Rezeption - Wandel - Einflussnahme - Rezeption - Wandel
- series title
- Culture clash or compromise
- editor
- Kattinger, Detlef ; Olesen, Jens E. and Wernicke, Horst
- volume
- 8
- pages
- 16 pages
- publisher
- Thomas Helms Verlag
- ISBN
- 3-935749-35-X
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- a98ecc76-9a7f-409a-9190-a3ecf5eb4614 (old id 533064)
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