Description

Churches and cathedrals, ruined abbeys and castle chapels, dating from the late Middle Ages, are still to be seen through every shire of England. They are visited by millions of tourists, trippers, grockles and sightseers every year – and some even venture in to worship.

But what wild and misleading information is offered by guidebooks and living guides, each copying the mistakes of the one before, and adding new fantasies as the whim takes them?

In Domus Orationis, take a look at these medieval churches, imagine what it would be like to visit them in the Middle Ages, and try to understand their meaning. Rather than exploring, as many guidebooks do, how these churches were made, this book considers the more important question: why were they made? What were mediæval churches really for and how were they used?

Domus Orationis is the perfect book for Catholic history lovers, as well as anyone who has ever walked into a mediæval church and wondered what it must have once been like.