Download or read book Defining the Holy written by Sarah Hamilton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holy sites - churches, monasteries, shrines - defined religious experience and were fundamental to the geography and social history of medieval and early modern Europe. How were these sacred spaces defined? How were they created, used, recognized and tran