Abstract
This essay examines the principles of design, decoration, and enhancement of sacred places within Christian tradition and explores the importance of ecclesiastical ‘stage management’ in creating and maintaining spaces which offer the possibility of revelation, encounter and transformation. It brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives to highlight the indispensability of the senses in these processes, the immense skill with which material culture was deployed to shape pilgrim experience during the Middle Ages, and ways in which cathedrals today are looking to the past as they seek to offer greater multi-sensory engagement to their increasingly diverse audiences.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Pilgrimage and England's Cathedrals, Past, Present, and Future |
| Editors | Dee Dyas, John Jenkins |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 2020 |