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Wooden churches of the Carpathians : a comparative study

Title
Wooden churches of the Carpathians : a comparative study / Joby Patterson.
Author
Patterson, Joby.
Publication
Boulder [Colo.] : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2001.

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Description
155 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
East European monographs ; no. 530
Uniform Title
East European monographs ; no. 530.
Subject
  • Wooden churches > Romania > Maramureș
  • Wooden churches
  • Holzkirche
  • Wooden churches > Romania
  • Church architecture > Romania
  • Holzkirche
  • Romania > Maramureș
  • Karpaten
  • Karpaten
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-146) and indexes.
Contents
pt. I. Background and Related Information -- I. Scope and Purpose of the Study -- II. Preservation of Wooden Churches: an Overview -- III. Issues and Problems of Research -- IV. Geography and History -- V. Orthodoxy, Uniatism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism -- VI. The Ethnographic Setting: Romanians and Their Neighbors in and Around Maramures and the Churches They Built -- VII. Environment and Technology: The "Culture of Wood" -- VIII. Techniques of Construction -- pt. II. The Churches -- IX. Methodology and Organization -- X. Early Churches and Monasteries (Early Medieval Period: c. 1000-1500) -- XI. The Developing Church (Mid-Medieval Period: c. 1500-1717) -- XII. The Age of Restraint and Elegance (Late Medieval Period: 1717-c. 1800) -- XIII. Decoration: an Overview -- Map: Subcarpathian Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania.
ISBN
  • 0880334282
  • 9780880334280
LCCN
99071341
OCLC
  • ocm47832806
  • 47832806
  • SCSB-9032747
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library