Stained Glass Windows: Victorian Catholic Devotional Verse on Sacred Art, Light, and Medieval Faith - Couverture souple

Faber, William Frederic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8028330010 ISBN 13 : 9788028330019

Editeur : Sharp Ink, 2023

Synopsis

In Stained Glass Windows, William Frederic Faber turns an architectural and devotional object into a richly suggestive literary emblem. The book contemplates faith as mediated through colour, light, memory, and sacred history, treating the window not merely as ornament but as a theology in glass. Its style is characteristically Victorian: ornate, meditative, musical, and steeped in the Catholic revival's fascination with beauty as a path to doctrine. Faber's prose or verse moves between sensuous description and spiritual instruction, placing the work within the nineteenth-century recovery of medieval forms and sacramental imagination. Faber himself was ideally positioned to produce such a work. An Anglican clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism under the influence of John Henry Newman, he became an Oratorian priest, hymn writer, and devotional author of considerable reach. His interest in liturgy, Marian devotion, and the emotional life of belief shaped a literary vocation devoted to making Catholic spirituality vivid and affective. Readers interested in Victorian religion, sacred aesthetics, or the literary afterlife of medieval art will find Stained Glass Windows rewarding. It is best approached slowly, as a contemplative text whose beauty lies in the union of image, doctrine, and devotion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sharp Ink
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8028330010
• ISBN 13: 9788028330019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 28
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Copycat s.r.o.; kristoferpaetau@gmail.com; ; Schnirchova 662/22, Hole¿ovice; Prague; 170 00; Rébublique tchèque