Holy goals and worldly means. Urban representation elements in church complexes

A. Busine (ed.) Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (Religions of the Graeco-Roman World)

This paper aims to examine how church leaders tactically used and, if necessary, adapted secular building components, decoration and mechanisms in order to turn Christian centres into pleasant venues for the larger civic community. The attractiveness and reception of churches could, in particular, be enhanced by elaborating the design of their entry by means of colonnaded streets, hemicycles, fountains, arches and tetrapyla. An overview of the way such elements were integrated into ecclesiastical complexes is provided.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

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