Early Christian Churches and Landscapes (ECCLES): Co-Creating Public Resources

早期基督教教堂和景观 (ECCLES)：共同创建公共资源

• 批准号: AH/X005550/1
• 负责人: Thomas Pickles
• 金额: $ 10.23万
• 依托单位: University of Chester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX005550%2F1
• 关键词: Early; Christian; Churches; Landscapes; ECCLES

Early Christian Churches and Landscapes (ECCLES) is a research project focused on Christian churches established in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and England before 1100. This was the period in which the peoples of Britain and Ireland converted to Christianity and first established the landscape of local churches. ECCLES brings together historians, archaeologists, art historians, and experts on place-names to identify the different types of evidence for those churches. It will provide a more comprehensive picture of the nature, location, distribution, and landscape settings of those churches. It will produce a Public Web Resource housing a database of the evidence, allowing users to search for places, discover their historical context, identify the surviving evidence relating to them, and download information to produce maps.The project is significant because churches have played a central role in economic, social, cultural, and political change. Christianity is a global faith, but it is practised locally: churches are places where local Christian identities are constructed as aspects of that global faith interact with local economic, social, cultural, and political conditions. Christian worship has involved communal participation. Churches have therefore also been places where members of local communities could show off economic wealth or social standing, or where rulers could seek to exert power. Thanks to their roles in local society, churches have often received land to support their work. The churches established before 1100 often remain significant sacred places and community centres today, where local communities curate the evidence from this period and where that evidence remains meaningful to them.Despite the significance of these churches to academic researchers and to local communities, our knowledge about them is incomplete. It is only from 1100 onwards that our evidence for churches of all kinds becomes more common, as a result of the foundation of reformed monasteries, the great rebuilding of local churches, and the beginning of diocesan and parish records. First, there is no comprehensive catalogue of the different types of evidence for churches established before 1100, so we do not know how many churches once existed. Second, though we know that there are regional variations in the evidence for early Christian churches, we do not know whether this reflects the original distribution of churches or is down to differences in the types of evidence available or the destruction of evidence in intervening periods. Third, in the period before 1100 the modern nations of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England did not exist, but the evidence for churches is often inappropriately researched according to those modern national boundaries. Fourth, the evidence for those churches is usually under the care of heritage agencies, ecclesiastical bodies, or charities, but there is no publicly accessible resource where they can identify that evidence, explore its context, or investigate its social values.To consider how the ECCLES Public Web Resource should meet the needs of academic researchers and non-academic stakeholders, the AHRC funded a Research Network. We observed that an existing European database focused on the needs of academic researchers; instead, we required a new Public Web Resource to meet the needs of non-academic stakeholders. We identified a demand for additional resources - an Online Exhibition Space where members of local communities can create exhibitions about their churches, and Model Teaching Packs to help teachers use the ECCLES database in schools. This AHRC Follow-On Funding project will allow us to program the ECCLES Public Web Resource, enter Pilot Data, and co-create an Online Exhibition Space, a Pilot Online Exhibition, and Model Teaching Packs with members of heritage agencies, ecclesiastical bodies, ecclesiastical charities, teachers, and local communities.

早期的基督教教堂和景观（Eccles）是一项研究项目，重点是在1100年之前在威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英国建立的基督教教堂。这是英国和爱尔兰人民转变为基督教并首先建立地方教会的景观的时期。 Eccles将历史学家，考古学家，艺术史学家和专家汇集在一起​​，以确定这些教会的不同类型的证据。它将提供有关这些教堂的性质，位置，分配和景观环境的更全面的图景。它将产生一个公共网络资源，其中包含证据数据库，使用户可以搜索地方，发现其历史背景，确定与之相关的幸存证据，并下载信息以制作地图。该项目很重要，因为教会在经济，社会，文化和政治变革中起着核心作用。基督教是一种全球信仰，但在当地实践：教会是当地基督教身份作为全球信仰与当地经济，社会，文化和政治条件互动的地方。基督教崇拜涉及公共参与。因此，教会也是当地社区成员可以展示经济财富或社会地位的地方，或者统治者可以寻求发挥权力的地方。由于他们在当地社会中的角色，教会经常收到土地来支持他们的工作。在1100年之前建立的教会通常仍然是当今重要的神圣场所和社区中心，那里的当地社区策划了这一时期的证据，而证据对他们仍然有意义。从1100年开始，由于改革修道院的基础，当地教会的重大重建以及教区和教区记录的开始，我们对各种教会的证据才变得更加普遍。首先，没有关于1100年前建立的教会的不同类型的证据的全面目录，因此我们不知道曾经有多少教堂。其次，尽管我们知道早期基督教教会的证据存在区域差异，但我们不知道这是反映教会的原始分布还是归结于可用证据类型的差异或中间时期证据的销毁。第三，在1100年之前，威尔士，爱尔兰，苏格兰和英格兰的现代国家不存在，但根据这些现代民族边界，教会的证据经常受到不当研究。第四，这些教堂的证据通常是在遗产机构，教会机构或慈善机构的照顾下，但是没有公开访问的资源，他们可以在其中识别证据，探索其背景或调查其社会价值。要考虑如何考虑公共网络资源如何满足学术研究人员的需求，并满足非acapicaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligalign conversyment opicaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligaligal的资源。我们观察到，现有的欧洲数据库专注于学术研究人员的需求；相反，我们需要一个新的公共网络资源来满足非学术利益相关者的需求。我们确定了对其他资源的需求 - 一个在线展览空间，当地社区的成员可以在其中创建有关其教堂的展览，并模型教学包，以帮助教师在学校中使用Eccles数据库。这个AHRC后续资金项目将使我们能够对Eccles公共网络资源进行编程，输入试点数据，并共同创建在线展览空间，试点在线展览，并与遗产机构，教会机构，教会机构，教会慈善机构，教师，老师和地方社区的成员进行模型教学包。