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.

早期基督教教堂和景观 (ECCLES) 是一个研究项目，重点研究 1100 年之前在威尔士、爱尔兰、苏格兰和英格兰建立的基督教教堂。这是英国和爱尔兰人民皈依基督教的时期，并首次建立了早期基督教教堂和景观。地方教会。 ECCLES 汇集了历史学家、考古学家、艺术史学家和地名专家，以确定这些教堂的不同类型的证据。它将更全面地描述这些教堂的性质、位置、分布和景观设置。它将生成一个包含证据数据库的公共网络资源，允许用户搜索地点、发现其历史背景、识别与其相关的幸存证据，并下载信息以生成地图。该项目意义重大，因为教堂在在经济、社会、文化和政治变革中发挥核心作用。基督教是一种全球信仰，但它是在当地实践的：教堂是当地基督教身份被构建的地方，因为全球信仰的各个方面与当地的经济、社会、文化和政治条件相互作用。基督教崇拜涉及集体参与。因此，教堂也是当地社区成员炫耀经济财富或社会地位，或者统治者寻求行使权力的地方。由于教会在当地社会中的作用，他们经常获得土地来支持他们的工作。 1100 年之前建立的教堂如今通常仍然是重要的圣地和社区中心，当地社区在这里整理这一时期的证据，并且这些证据对他们仍然有意义。尽管这些教堂对学术研究人员和当地社区具有重要意义，但我们对这些教堂的了解它们是不完整的。直到1100年以后，由于改革后修道院的建立、地方教堂的伟大重建以及教区和教区记录的开始，我们对各种教堂的证据才变得更加普遍。首先，没有关于1100年之前建立的教堂的不同类型证据的全面目录，因此我们不知道曾经存在过多少教堂。其次，虽然我们知道早期基督教会的证据存在地区差异，但我们不知道这是否反映了教会的原始分布，或者是由于可用证据类型的差异或干预时期证据的破坏。第三，在1100年之前的时期，威尔士、爱尔兰、苏格兰和英格兰等现代国家并不存在，但教会的证据往往不恰当地按照这些现代国家的边界​​来研究。第四，这些教堂的证据通常由遗产机构、教会机构或慈善机构保管，但没有公开的资源可以让他们识别这些证据、探索其背景或调查其社会价值。 ECCLES 公共网络资源应满足学术研究人员和非学术利益相关者的需求，AHRC 资助了一个研究网络。我们观察到现有的欧洲数据库侧重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。我们确定了对额外资源的需求 - 一个在线展览空间，当地社区成员可以在其中创建有关其教堂的展览，以及帮助教师在学校使用 ECCLES 数据库的模型教学包。这个 AHRC 后续资助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，并与遗产机构、教会机构、教会的成员共同创建在线展览空间、试点在线展览和模型教学包。慈善机构、教师和当地社区。