Zápas o kostel: Interpretace sakrální architektury raného novověku v soudobé náboženské literatuře
| Title in English | A Fight for a Church: Interpretations of Early Modern Sacral Architecture in Contemporary Religious Literature |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The paper focuses on religious texts of the post-Reformation period as a source of reflection and interpretation of sacred architecture. A considerable number of dogmatic and polemical writings by Catholic and non-Catholic authors survive from the 16th and 17th centuries in the context of Central Europe. They also provide valuable information for reflection on visual culture and architecture that is not always used. Religious writings conveyed a discourse of the exceptionalism (and controversy) of pre-modern sacred architecture and provide a key frame of reference for a different understanding of the architecture of the humanist period. At the same time, religious texts lead to a somewhat different understanding of sacred architecture, rather seen in the socio-religious and cultural category of “sacred space”. Sacred architecture was discussed here primarily as a social, dynamic space whose essence was defined not so much by its formal, material or architectural structure, but primarily by its religious operation. The study thus presents in parallel an interpretive framework of texts from both architectural-humanist and religious-polemical backgrounds that exhibited an analogous understanding of the church as a specific building-ideological task. Rethinking the status and socio-functional identity of the pre-modern sacred building can challenge art history to examine architecture in a different way than formalist scholarship and to understand the nature of sacred space in the post-Reformation era in a different way. |