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Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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In Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society Maximilian Sternberg offers an account of the social functions of the built environment in medieval monasticism. Few medieval monuments hold so privileged a place in the modern imagination as Cistercian abbeys, yet Sternberg suggests, it is precisely our own, peculiarly modern fascination with the idea of 'Cistercian aesthetics' that has hindered a full view of the complex social meanings of their architecture. This book draws attention instead to the practical and symbolic means by which architecture helped the Cistercians to negotiate the dense web of relations that, in actuality, bound them to other spheres of medieval society. It explores the permeability of monastic boundaries, and considers their effectiveness in reconciling a simultaneous need for interaction and distance between monastic communities and these other social spheres.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-08-15
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt614 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History
Antal sidor298
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004251809

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List of illiustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsA note on translationsIntroductionPART I. ICONOLOGIES OF CISTERCIAN ARCHITECTURE1. Medievalist imaginaries2. Between Romanesque and GothicPART II. HORIZONS OF REFORM3. Monastic and societal renewal 4. Vita activaPART III. PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES5. The paradigm of St. Gall6. From gatehouse to choir screen7. The inner enclosurePART IV. CISTERCIANS AND THE CITY8. Toulouse9. Paris ConclusionAppendix: List of Cistercian abbeys in the LanguedocBibliographyIndex

“This inspiring book … is a refreshing take on the thirteenth-century Cistercians.”Karen Stöber, Universitat de Lleida, Catalunya. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 4 (2015), pp. 862-863."This is a lucid and thought-provoking book. Sternberg offers an acute analysis of the influence of Modernist visions on the development of the scholarly idea of a world-forsaking Cistercian architecture and challenges this idea with rich and insightful case-studies, shedding light on the range of relations between the white monks and medieval society. His astute and reflective work is of interest for students of medieval religion and its societal manifestations and for anyone concerned with the charged emergence of scholarly paradigms."Mette Birkedal Bruun, University of Copenhagen (unpublished endorsement).