[Bell Historians] ] Origin of church towers

[Anne Willis]

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Sent: 02 August 2012 09:29
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Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] ] Origin of church towers

 

  

> Does anyone have any good references on the subject of the origin of
> church towers? They are remarkably neglected by the standard works on
> early Christian/Byzantine/Carolingian architecture. 

Do these help?

1 - On Bells & Bell-Towers: origins and evolutions in Italy and Britain
AD700 to 1200 (The Sixteenth Brixworth Lecture) ; Neil Christie; pp13-30,
Church Archeaology Volumes 5 and 6.

2 - Summoning St Michael - Early Romanesque Towers in Lincolnshire; David
Stocker and Paul Everson; Oxbow books, 2006. ISBN 184217 123 1. (I've
only just come across this, not read it, but it includes an interesting
looking chapter: 'Symbols of the Psychopomp; a motivation for tower
building?'

Regards

-- 
John Harrison
Website http://jaharrison.me.uk



 

Thanks very much

 

 

Anne

           
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