- Publisher: Hodder
- Year: 2022
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 195x129mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781529396430
- Product code: 546649
If These Stones Could Talk
The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland Through Twenty Buildings
Peter Stanford , Illus. Stephen Tsang New Paperback Illustrated
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Christianity has defined the history of the British Isles, with its places of worship still a prominent feature of the contemporary landscape. As Peter Stanford guides the reader through the two millennia of the Christian era he focuses on the stories behind one significant site from each century, ranging from Glastonbury and the shrine of St Alban, which preserve memories of the Roman period, to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of 1967.
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'A heavenly book, elegant and thoughtful. Get one for yourself and one for the church-crawler in your life!' Lucy Worsley
Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed.
In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other.
'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday
Christianity has been central to the lives of the people of Britain and Ireland for almost 2,000 years. It has given us laws, customs, traditions and our national character. From a persecuted minority in Roman Britannia through the 'golden age' of Anglo-Saxon monasticism, the devastating impact of the Vikings, the alliance of church and state after the Norman Conquest to the turmoil of the Reformation that saw the English monarch replace the Pope and the Puritan Commonwealth that replaced the king, it is a tangled, tumultuous story of faith and achievement, division and bloodshed.
In If These Stones Could Talk Peter Stanford journeys through England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to churches, abbeys, chapels and cathedrals, grand and humble, ruined and thriving, ancient and modern, to chronicle how a religion that began in the Middle East came to define our past and shape our present. In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in their pews, he builds century by century the narrative of what Christianity has meant to the nations of the British Isles, how it is reflected in the relationship between rulers and ruled, and the sense it gives about who we are and how we live with each other.
'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday
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Christianity has defined the history of the British Isles, with its places of worship still a prominent feature of the contemporary landscape. As Peter Stanford guides the reader through the two millennia of the Christian era he focuses on the stories behind one significant site from each century, ranging from Glastonbury and the shrine of St Alban, which preserve memories of the Roman period, to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of 1967.
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