Between the Altar and the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the Spiritual

Raingard Esser,Andrea Strübind

doi:10.46586/er.v7.2018.0-136

Abstract

This special issue is based on papers presented at the international conference “Zwischen Kanzel und Altar. Die (neue) Materialität des Spirituellen” held at the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in April 2016. Continuity and change in church interiors were key concepts addressed at the conference. The studies presented here analyse the impact of confessional change on church interiors and intentionally move away from the cathedrals and parish churches in the political and religious centres of early modern Europe.

Highlights

Between the Altar and2–13 the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the SpiritualRaingard Esser, Andrea StrübindSacred Space and “True Religion”: The Irish Reformation and the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, Galway Steven G
Medieval and early modern churches were houses of worship; they were complex, multifaceted social spaces. They were “nodes” of social life, as well as, at times, trading places for goods (Hamilton and Spicer 2005, 1–26). This multifunctional use of church space was prominent in the seventeenth-century Netherlands, where Calvinist church buildings served as public spaces to entertain and educate, to meet, and to remember
While much research has been undertaken in recent years on the church interiors of European Lutheran churches, less is known about the Calvinist church interiors in the Netherlands (Spicer 2012, 2007)

Summary

Introduction

Between the Altar and2–13 the Pulpit: The (New?) Materiality of the SpiritualRaingard Esser, Andrea StrübindSacred Space and “True Religion”: The Irish Reformation and the Collegiate Church of St Nicholas, Galway Steven G. The Tudor Reformation retained these choral foundations, with pipe-organs and a large staff of clergy, which had no parallel elsewhere in Protestant Europe; but this choral exploitation of the prayer book extended to collegiate churches such as Galway, where vicars choral had been retained.

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