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Cistercian architecture and medieval society / by Maximilian Sternberg

Author
Sternberg, Maximilian, 1979-
Published
Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Physical Description
xi, 298 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE ICONOLOGIES OF CISTERCIAN ARCHITECTURE -- 1.Medievalist Imaginaries -- 2.Between Romanesque and Gothic -- pt. TWO HORIZONS OF REFORM -- 3.Monastic Reform and Societal Renewal -- 4.Vita Activa -- pt. THREE PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES -- 5.The Paradigm of St. Gall -- 6.From Gatehouse to Choir Screen -- 7.The Inner Enclosure -- pt. FOUR CISTERCIANS AND THE CITY -- 8.Toulouse -- 9.Paris.
Summary
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. 0Also part of series Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; 221/5.
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ISBN
9789004251809 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004251804 (hardback : alk. paper)
Note
BRILL'S STUDIES ON ART, ART HISTORY, AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY; V. 5.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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