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OverviewFrom generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behaviour while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalise their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practises. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinise carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalised – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyse the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gian Franco Chiai , Ralph HäusslerPublisher: Oxbow Books Imprint: Oxbow Books ISBN: 9781789253276ISBN 10: 1789253276 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 01 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsRalph Haeussler and Gian Franco Chiai Interpreting sacred landscapes: a cross-cultural approach Section 1 – Manipulation of sacred sites: monumentalising natural features 2) Francesca Diosono Inside the Volcano and into the trees. The sacred grove of Diana Nemorensis in archaic Latium between the literary and archaeological Sources 3) Maria João Correia Santos Sacred landscape and rock-cut sanctuaries of Iberian Peninsula: the principal of duality or harmony of complementary oppositions 4) Leticia López-Mondéjar The transformation of cult places during the Roman expansion in the Iberian South-east (third–first century BC) 5) Ruth Ayllón-Martín Sacred spaces in nature: myth and reality in Celtiberia 6) Csaba Szabó Nature as sacred landscape in Roman Dacia 7) Eris Williams Reed Environments and gods: creating the sacred landscape of Mount Kasios Section 2 – Transformation of sacred landscapes 8) Lucia Alberti Over the rainbow: places with and without memory in the funerary landscape of Knossos during the second millennium BC 9) Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield Material forms and ritual performance on Minoan peak sanctuaries 10) Louise Steel Transforming landscapes: exploring the creation of a Sacred Landscape in north-east Cyprus at the Beginning of the Late Bronze Age 11) Francisco Marco Simón Monumentalisation of watery cults in Tarraconensis and Lusitania 12) Anthony C. King Romano-Celtic temples in the landscape: Meonstoke, Hampshire, UK, a hexagonal shrine to Epona and a river deity on a villa estate 13) Sarah McHugh Renewal and Reconfiguration: Interpreting the Ilissos area of Athens in the second century AD 14) Rita Sassu and Rosa Di Marco The impact of economics on sacred landscapes: Hoarding processes in Attic sanctuaries 625–475 BC 15) Marco García Quintela and José Carlos Sánchez Pardo Landscape, Christianisation and Social Power in late Antique and early medieval Galicia Section 3 – Myth & Memory: landscapes invested with meaning 16) María Cruz Cardete Pan’s sacred landscapes in Classical Arkadia 17) Gian Franco Chiai Creating Sacred Landscapes in Roman Phrygia: the cases of Laodicea on the Lycus and Aizanoi 18) Florian Schimpf On urban rock sanctuaries of eastern Greece 19) Julie Baleriaux Where do rivers dive? Giving meaning to subterranean rivers in Ancient Greek thought 20) Elena Chepel Performing sacred landscapes: worship and praise of land in Greek drama 21) Maxwell Stocker Integration and Interaction in Egyptian Non-Royal Sacred Landscapes: A Study of the Tomb-Chapel of Neferhotep (TT50) 22) Marco Palone Desacralised landscapes: Nilotic views in the Ethiopian Stories by Heliodorus 23) Viviana Sia The temple of Contrada Marafioti in Locri Epizephiri: a new approach Section 4 – Experiencing Sacred Landscapes 24) Thomas Jansen The sacralisation of landscape as memory space in medieval China: ‘Ascending Mount Xian with several Gentlemen’ 25) Andy Valdez-Tullett ‘God is on the journey too.’ Sacred experiences on the road in Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age southern Britain Section 5 – Landscape, Identity & Social Cohesion 26) Katharina Zinn Creating and conserving sacred landscapes: Abydos and Amarna – Keeping the spirit alive? 27) Anna-Katharina Rieger Spatialising sacralised places: Landscape as analytical category for understanding social relations and spatial interaction of Graeco-Roman sanctuaries in the Hauran 28) Matteo F. Olivieri Sacred landscape manipulation in the sanctuary of Apollo of Delos: Peisistratus’ purification and the networks of culture and politics in the sixth-century BC Aegean 29) Selga Medenieks Cyrus the Great of Persia and the acculturation of religion at Sardis 30) Anastasia Amrhein Presence in the landscape: encountering Neo-Assyrian kingship and divinity ‘from the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea’ 31) Gilbert R. Burleigh Temples, treasures, heroic burials and deities: A sacred landscape bounding Iron Age and Romano-British Baldock 32) Ralph Haeussler Memory, identities, transformations: the sacred landscapes of the Volcae Arecomici and the colonia Nemausus 33) Daniele Salvoldi (Re)Constructing the sacred landscape of Nubia in the early nineteenth centuryReviewsThe 33 chapters give the volume an impressive chronological range, with case studies from the Bronze Age to the medieval period, as well as good geographical coverage. Editors Ralph Häussler and Gian Franco Chiai have curated an engaging volume that digs deep into the complexity of sacred landscapes. * Antiquity * This volume offers fascinating case studies on ways the interplay of natural and built environments underwrote the construction and contestation of past sacred landscapes. * CHOICE * This volume offers fascinating case studies on ways the interplay of natural and built environments underwrote the construction and contestation of past sacred landscapes. * CHOICE * Author InformationDr Gian Franco Chiai has studied at La Sapienza (Rome) and has been working at Frankfurt University and the Free University of Berlin. His main interests are mythical geography, Greek and Roman epigraphy and numismatics, Greco-Roman religion and ancient historiography. Senior Lecturer in Classics, U. of Wales Trinity St David. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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