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Early Christian Churches and Landscapes (ECCLES)

早期基督教教堂和景观 (ECCLES)

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P00105X/1
负责人：
Thomas Pickles
金额：
$ 3.69万
依托单位：
University of Chester
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP00105X%2F1
关键词：
Early Christian Churches Landscapes ECCLES

项目摘要

Early Christian Churches and Landscapes (ECCLES) is a research project focused on Christian churches established in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England before 1100. It brings together historians, archaeologists, art historians, and experts on place-names to identify the different types of evidence for those churches. It aims to produce a more comprehensive picture of the nature, location, distribution, and landscape settings of those churches. Ultimately, it will produce a website housing national databases of the evidence, allowing users to search and map that evidence.The project is significant because churches have played a central role in economic, social, cultural, and political change. Christianity is a global faith, but it is practised locally: churches have always been places where local Christian identities were constructed as aspects of that global faith interacted with local economic, social, cultural, and political conditions. Christian worship has involved communal participation. Churches have therefore also been places where members of local communities could show off their economic wealth or social standing to one another, or where rulers could seek to exert power over those communities. Thanks to their roles in local society, churches have often received land to support the work of the clergy and gifts from members of the local community, making them unusually wealthy and long-lived institutions. This has enabled churches to become the focus for local settlements and to drive economic development. The result is that churches always present key evidence for the history of the local communities within which they were located.Despite the significance of these churches to academic researchers and to local communities, our knowledge of Christian churches in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England before 1100 is incomplete. It is only from about 1100 onwards that our evidence for churches of all kinds becomes more common, as a result of the foundation of reformed monasteries, the great rebuilding of local churches, and the inception of diocesan and parish records. First, there is no comprehensive catalogue of the different types of evidence for churches established before 1100, so we do not know how many churches once existed. Second, though we know that there are regional variations in the evidence for early Christian churches, we do not know whether this reflects the original distribution of churches or is down to differences in the types of evidence available or the destruction of evidence in intervening periods. Third, in the period before 1100 the modern nations of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England did not exist, but the evidence for churches is often inappropriately researched according to those modern national boundaries. Fourth, the evidence for those churches is usually under the care of heritage agencies, ecclesiastical bodies, or charities, but there is no publicly accessible resource where they can identify that evidence, discover its significance, or obtain advice about preserving it or presenting it to the public.ECCLES will remedy these problems. It will bring together academics from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England to establish what evidence should be recorded. It will bring together representatives from those groups who care for that evidence to see what they would like to know. It will thereby design a suitable website and databases to make that evidence available to everyone with an interest in looking after our early Christian churches.

早期基督教教堂和景观（ECCLES）是一个研究项目，重点是1100年之前在威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰建立的基督教教堂。它汇集了历史学家，考古学家，艺术历史学家和地名专家，以确定这些教堂的不同类型的证据。它的目的是产生一个更全面的图片的性质，位置，分布和景观设置的这些教堂。最终，它将建立一个网站，其中包含国家证据数据库，允许用户搜索和绘制证据。该项目意义重大，因为教会在经济、社会、文化和政治变革中发挥了核心作用。基督教是一个全球性的信仰，但它是在当地实践的：教会一直是地方基督教身份的地方，作为全球信仰的各个方面与当地的经济，社会，文化和政治条件相互作用。基督教的崇拜涉及社区参与。因此，教堂也是地方社区成员相互炫耀经济财富或社会地位的地方，或者是统治者试图对这些社区施加权力的地方。由于他们在当地社会中的作用，教会经常收到土地，以支持神职人员的工作和礼物，从当地社区的成员，使他们异常富裕和长寿的机构。这使教堂成为当地定居点的中心，并推动经济发展。其结果是，教会总是为他们所在的当地社区的历史提供关键证据，尽管这些教会对学术研究人员和当地社区具有重要意义，但我们对1100年之前威尔士、爱尔兰、苏格兰和英格兰的基督教教会的了解是不完整的。这是只有从约1100起，我们的证据，各种教会变得更加普遍，作为改革寺院的基础，当地教会的伟大重建，以及教区和教区记录的开始结果。首先，没有关于1100年之前建立的教会的各种证据的全面目录，所以我们不知道曾经存在过多少教会。第二，虽然我们知道早期基督教教会的证据存在地区差异，但我们不知道这是否反映了教会的原始分布，或者是由于现有证据类型的差异，或者是由于证据在中间时期的破坏。第三，在1100年之前的时期，威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰等现代国家并不存在，但教堂的证据往往是不适当的研究根据这些现代国家的边界。第四，这些教会的证据通常由遗产机构、教会机构或慈善机构保管，但没有公开的资源可以让他们识别这些证据，发现其重要性，或获得有关保护或向公众展示的建议。ECCLES将解决这些问题。它将汇集来自威尔士、爱尔兰、苏格兰和英格兰的学者，以确定应该记录哪些证据。它将把那些关心证据的团体的代表聚集在一起，看看他们想知道什么。因此，它将设计一个合适的网站和数据库，使每个人都有兴趣照顾我们的早期基督教教会的证据。