The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space ISBN: 9781137295057 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Palgrave Literature Collection;
Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.
Samuel W. Collins is Assistant Professor of History at George Mason University.