Download or read book The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space written by S. Collins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.