Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism

by L. Michael Harrington

Book Overview

The twentieth century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively postmodern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140396601X
• ISBN13: 9781403966018
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"