An exploration of how and why places become invested with SACREDNESS and how the SACRED is embodied or made manifest through ART and ARCHITECTURE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sacred Places
- Paul Devereux, Secrets of Ancient and Sacred Places: The World's Mysterious Heritage, London: Blandford, 1992.
- James Harpur, The Atlas of Sacred Places: Meeting Points of Heaven and Earth, New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
- Colin Wilson, Atlas of Holy Places & Sacred Sites, New York: DK Publishing, 1996.
Sacredness
- Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion: The Significance of Religious Myth, Symbolism, and Ritual within Life and Culture, translated from the French by William R. Trask, New York: Harper & Row, 1961 (first published in 1957 in German as Das Heilige und das Profane).
- Rudolph Otto, The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational, translated by John W. Harvey, 2nd edition, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1950 (first edition 1923).
Stones (sources cited)
- Jean-Pierre Mohen, The World of Megaliths, New York: Facts on File, 1990 (first published in French, 1989).
Water (sources cited)
- Titus Burckhardt, The Symbolism of Water. in Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art, translated and edited by William Stoddart, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987, pp. 124-131.
- Alev Lytle Croutier, Taking the Waters: Spirir, Art, Sensuality,
New York: Abbeville, 1992.
Trees (sources cited)
- William Anderson, The Green Man, London: HarperCollins, 1990.
- Karl Bötticher, Der Baumkultus der Hellenen, nach den gottesdienstlichen gebräuchen und den überlieferten bildwerken dargestellt, Berlin: Weidmann, 1856.
- Jacques Brosse, Mythologie des arbres, Paris, 1989.
- Valerie Flint, The Rise of Magic in Medieval Europe, Princeton, 1991.
- John Irwin, Asokan Pillars: A Reassessment of the Evidence, Burlington Magazine, CXVIII, November 1976, pp. 734-753.
- F. Kampers, Mittelalterliche Sagen vom Paradies und vom Holze des Kreuzes Christi, Cologne, 1897.
- P. R. S. Moorey, Ur of the Chaldees: A Revised and Updated Edition of Sir Leonard Woolley's Excavations at Ur, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
- H. W. Parke, The Oracles of Zeus: Dodona, Olympia, Ammon, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967.
- Jan Pieper, Arboreal Art and Architecture in India, in Concepts of Space Ancient and Modern, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi: Abhinav, 1991, pp. 333-341.
- J. H. Philpot, The Sacred Tree, London: Macmillan, 1897.
- M. Vannucci, Sacred Groves or Holy Forests, in Concepts of Space Ancient and Modern, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi: Abhinav, 1991, pp. 323-331.
General
- Richard Buxton, Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Brian Cunliffe, The Celtic World, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
- Sir James Frazer, The New Golden Bough, A New Abridgment, edited, with notes and forward by Theodor H. Gaster, New York: Criterion Books, 1959. First published in England in 1890 as The Golden Bough.
- Miranda Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1992.
- Ronald Hutton, The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles, Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
- W. R. Letherby, Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth, New York: Braziller, 1975 (first published London, 1891).
- Pausanias's Description of Greece, translated with a commentary by J. G. Frazer, 6 vols., London: Macmillan, 1913.
- Pliny, Natural History, with an English translation by H. Rackham, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1938-63.
- Joseph Rykwert, On Adam's House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1981.
- Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- Earl Baldwin Smith, Egyptian Architecture as Cultural Expression, New York: Appleton-Century, 1938.
- Vitruvius, De architectura, edited from the Harleian manuscript 2767 and translated into English by Frank Granger, London, New York: W. Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's sons, 1931-34.
SACRED PLACES is written and produced by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia, 24595 USA
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