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.

早期的基督教教堂和景观（ECCLES）是一项研究项目，重点是在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，艺术史学家和位置上的专家，以确定这些教堂的不同类型的证据。它旨在对这些教堂的性质，位置，分布和景观设置进行更全面的了解。最终，它将生成一个网站，其中包括证据的国家数据库，使用户能够搜索和映射证据。该项目很重要，因为教会在经济，社会，文化和政治变革中发挥了核心作用。基督教是一种全球信仰，但它是在当地实践的：教会一直是当地基督教身份作为该全球信仰与当地经济，社会，文化和政治条件相互作用的地方。基督教崇拜涉及公共参与。因此，教会也是当地社区成员可以互相展示其经济财富或社会地位的地方，或者统治者可以寻求对这些社区发挥权力。多亏了他们在当地社会中的角色，教会经常收到土地来支持神职人员的工作和当地社区成员的礼物，使他们变得异常富裕，长期以来。这使教会能够成为地方定居点并推动经济发展的重点。结果是，教会始终为他们所在的地方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的重要性，但我们对威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰的基督教教会的了解在1100之前是不完整的。由于改革修道院的基础，当地教会的重大重建以及教区和教区记录的成立，我们的各种教会的证据只有大约1100个以后才变得更加普遍。首先，没有关于1100年前建立的教会的不同类型的证据的全面目录，因此我们不知道曾经有多少教堂。其次，尽管我们知道早期基督教教会的证据存在区域差异，但我们不知道这是反映教会的原始分布还是归结于可用证据类型的差异或中间时期证据的销毁。第三，在1100年之前，威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰的现代国家不存在，但根据这些现代民族边界，教会的证据经常受到不当研究。第四，这些教会的证据通常是在遗产机构，教会机构或慈善机构的照顾下，但是没有公开访问的资源，他们可以在其中识别出证据，发现其意义或获得有关保存或向公众提出的建议。它将从威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰汇集学者，以确定应记录什么证据。它将聚集到那些关心证据的团体的代表，以了解他们想知道的知识。因此，它将设计一个合适的网站和数据库，以使每个人都有兴趣照顾我们早期的基督教教堂的证据。