Christian Architecture As Ritual Technology Part 5: Holy Bodies, Relics, The Holy Sepulchre & More

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Morts, martyrs, reliques en Afrique chrétienne aux premiers siècles. Beauchesne, 1980.Trout, Dennis E. Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems. University of California Press, 1999.Rapp, Claudia. Holy Bishops in Late Antiquity: The Nature of Christian Leadership in an Age of Transition. University of California Press, 2005.Hahn, Cynthia. Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400–circa 1204. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.Hahn, Cynthia. “Seeing and Believing: The Construction of Sanctity in Early-Medieval Saints’ Shrines.” Speculum, vol. 72, no. 4, 1997, pp. 1079–1106.Geary, Patrick J. Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages. Princeton University Press, 1978.Vikan, Gary. Early Byzantine Pilgrimage Art. Dumbarton Oaks, 1982.Vikan, Gary. Sacred Images and Sacred Power in Byzantium. Ashgate, 2003.Bitton-Ashkelony, Brouria. Encountering the Sacred: The Debate on Christian Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 2005.Hunt, E. D. Holy Land Pilgrimage in the Later Roman Empire AD 312–460. Clarendon Press, 1982.Wilkinson, John. Jerusalem Pilgrims Before the Crusades. Aris & Phillips, 1977.Wilkinson, John. Egeria’s Travels to the Holy Land. 3rd ed., Aris & Phillips, 1999.Egeria. Egeria: Diary of a Pilgrimage. Translated by George E. Gingras. Newman Press, 1970.Egeria. The Pilgrimage of Egeria: A New Translation of the Itinerarium Egeriae with Introduction and Commentary. Translated by Anne McGowan and Paul F. Bradshaw. Liturgical Press, 2018.Sivan, Hagith. “Who Was Egeria? Piety and Pilgrimage in the Age of Gratian.” Harvard Theological Review, vol. 81, no. 1, 1988, pp. 59–72.Biddle, Martin. The Tomb of Christ. Sutton Publishing, 1999.Coüasnon, Charles. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Oxford University Press, 1974.Gibson, Shimon, and Joan E. Taylor. Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem: The Archaeology and Early History of Traditional Golgotha. Palestine Exploration Fund, 1994.Ousterhout, Robert. “Architecture as Relic and the Construction of Sanctity: The Stones of the Holy Sepulchre.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 62, no. 1, 2003, pp. 4–23.Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Yale University Press, 1986.Grabar, André. Martyrium: Recherches sur le culte des reliques et l’art chrétien antique. Collège de France, 1946.Jensen, Robin M. Understanding Early Christian Art. Routledge, 2000.Jensen, Robin M. Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual, and Theological Dimensions. Baker Academic, 2012.Webb, Matilda. The Churches and Catacombs of Early Christian Rome: A Comprehensive Guide. Sussex Academic Press, 2001.Bowes, Kim. Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008.MacCormack, Sabine. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. University of California Press, 1981.Bradshaw, Paul F. The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy. Oxford University Press, 2002.Bradshaw, Paul F., and Maxwell E. Johnson. The Origins of Feasts, Fasts and Seasons in Early Christianity. Liturgical Press, 2011.Taft, Robert F. The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today. Liturgical Press, 1986.Mango, Cyril. Byzantine Architecture. Electa/Rizzoli, 1976.Ousterhout, Robert. Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands. Oxford University Press, 2019.Useful Primary and Late Antique SourcesEgeria. Itinerarium Egeriae, also known as The Pilgrimage of Egeria. Essential for Holy Land pilgrimage, Jerusalem liturgy, Good Friday veneration of the Cross, and the relationship between Scripture, ritual, and place.Cyril of Jerusalem. Catechetical Lectures. Useful for fourth-century Jerusalem, initiation, baptismal theology, and the sacred environment of late antique Christian teaching.Jerome. Letters. Useful for pilgrimage, sacred geography, ascetic networks, and Christian devotion to the Holy Land.Paulinus of Nola. Letters and Poems. Useful for relic devotion, saintly patronage, shrine culture, and the cult of Felix at Nola.Augustine. City of God. Useful for Christian interpretations of paganism, sacred history, relic miracles, and the theology of the heavenly and earthly cities.Augustine. Sermons. Useful for martyr feasts, relic devotion, Christian memory, and the pastoral handling of saint veneration.Theodoret of Cyrrhus. The Cure of Pagan Maladies. Useful for late antique Christian arguments against paganism and for understanding the Christian replacement of older sacred forms.Gregory of Nyssa. Life of Macrina and related writings. Useful for Christian death, sanctity, holy bodies, and late antique attitudes toward ascetic holiness.Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.