Churches 48(1), Pp
PP Periodica Polytechnica Longitudinal, Transverse or Centrally Architecture Aligned? In the Search for the Correct Layout of the ‘Protesters’ Churches 48(1), pp. 1-16, 2017 https://doi.org/10.3311/PPar.11309 Creative Commons Attribution b Jan Harasimowicz1* research article Received 04 May 2017; accepted 07 July 2017 Abstract Research on Protestant church architecture in Europe is lack- The article was written within the framework of a research ing in many respects. Indeed, the only attempt to synthesise the project “Protestant Church Architecture of the 16th -18th matter was made in the late 19th1 century, and it excluded much centuries in Europe”, conducted by the Department of the of Central and Eastern Europe (for instance, the areas in pres- Renaissance and Reformation Art History at the University of ent-day Czech, Poland or Hungary). Several national Protestant Wrocław. It is conceived as a preliminary summary of the proj- churches have yet to be addressed by contemporary researchers, ect’s outcomes. The project’s principal research objective is to which means that it is difficult to form a synthetic view from a develop a synthesis of Protestant church architecture in the pan-European perspective. Moreover, experts have not reached countries which accepted, even temporarily, the Reformation: a consensus on whether to apply the classical research meth- Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, ods of art history to Protestant church buildings – which would Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Island, Latvia, Lithuania, mean examining those buildings in conjunction with Catholic Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Swit- structures – or whether to focus exclusively on the liturgical and zerland, Sweden and The Netherlands.
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