Rebecca Coughlin Department of Classics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Space and Ritual Action: The Construction of Sacred Place According to Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite This paper which will explore the relation of space and ritual action with the development of the idea of place in the sixth-century Syrian Christian Neoplatonist Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. This exploration will involve a discussion of the construction of Syrian Churches during the fifth and sixth centuries... read more
