A cathedral of the Church of England is the seat of the bishop and a centre of worship and mission. The history of this institution is followed from the English Reformation, which it survived, through to the Commonwealth, which it did not. Restored on the return of the monarchy,…
The purpose of this dissertation is to shed light on the study of Romanesque art in Italy with a investigation of the cathedral in Sovana, an historically significant but understudied Romanesque church located in southern Tuscany. This dissertation presents the first effort to a…
Through historical archaeology, an analysis of the material remains of Iglesia Mayor, the first cathedral in New Spain, dating from 1523 to 1626, was conducted. It was built in the center of what was the Aztec capital of México, Tenochtitlan, which became the capital of New Spai…
This study analyzes the affectivity of the Cathedral of Seville on its fifteenth and sixteenth century audiences through a phenomenological assessment of spatial experience on its viewer. In so doing, I contend that the space simultaneously influenced and reflected social conten…