The Cistercian Abbeys Of Britain
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Author | : David Martin Robinson |
Publisher | : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Published to coincide with the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Cistercian order in 1098, this is a guide to all the Cistercian abbeys in Britain. The 86 sites include the beautiful ruins of Tintern, Fountains, Rievaulx and Melrose, as well as the home of Sir Francis Drake and the burial place of the last Welsh Prince of Wales. Each gazetteer entry describes the history and architecture of the site and the people connected with it, and there are chapters on the overall history and architecture of the Cistercian order. There are also plans of all the abbeys, a detailed bibliography, and practical details such as grid references and information on access to each site.
Author | : Michael Carter |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9782503581934 |
The Cistercian abbeys of northern England provide some of the finest monastic remains in all of Europe, and much has been written on their twelfth- and thirteenth-century architecture. The present study is the first in-depth analysis of the art and architecture of these northern houses and nunneries in the late Middle Ages, and questions many long-held opinions about the Order's perceived decline during the period c.1300-1540. Extensive building works were conducted between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries at well-known abbeys such as Byland, Fountains, Kirkstall, and Rievaulx, and also at lesser-known houses including Calder and Holm Cultram, and at many convents of Cistercian nuns. This study examines the motives of Cistercian patrons and the extent to which the Order continued to enjoy the benefaction of lay society. Featuring over a hundred illustrations and eight colour plates, this book demonstrates that the Cistercians remained at the forefront of late medieval artistic developments, and also shows how the Order expressed its identity in its visual and material cultures until the end of the Middle Ages.
Author | : Glyn Coppack |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Glyn Coppack |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1445619954 |
An engaging study of Yorkshire's famous Fountains Abbeys.
Author | : David M. Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Abbeys |
ISBN | : 9780713487275 |
Initially published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Cistercian order in 1098, this is a guide to all the Cistercian abbeys in Britain. The 86 sites include the beautiful ruins of Tintern, Fountains, Rievaulx and Melrose, as well as the home of Sir Francis Drake and the burial place of the last Welsh Prince of Wales. Each gazetteer entry describes the history and architecture of the site and the people connected with it, and there are chapters on the overall history and architecture of the Cistercian order. There are also plans of all the abbeys, a detailed bibliography, and practical details such as grid references and information on access to each site.
Author | : Jean-François Leroux-Dhuys |
Publisher | : Konemann UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The nature of the Cistercian movement resulted in a uniform style of architecture across Europe, noted for its lack of decoration and poetic atmosphere. Cistercian Abbeys traces the chronological development of this movement and depicts its major monasteries in France, England, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. A typical Konemann publication: massive in size, superb in illustration.
Author | : Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Completed posthumously by his editor, this book by a modern Cistercian monk presents a general history of monastic Cistercian life in medieval Ireland, followed by histories of four medieval Cistercian abbeys, namely Inislounaght, Holy Cross, Kilcooly, and Hore (Cashel). It traces the abbeys' paths
Author | : Frederick Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Abbeys |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick Ross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Megan Cassidy-Welch |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Medieval Cistercians distinguished between material and imagined space, while the landscapes in which they lived were perceived as both physical sites and abstract topographies. Ostensibly, Cistercians lived in intensely regulated and confined physical circumstances in accordance with ideals of enclosure articulated in the Regula S. Benedicti. However, Cistercian representations of space also express ideas of transcendence and freedom. This monograph focuses on the abbeys of northern England during the period 1132-1400 (Fountains, Rievaulx, Jervaulx, Meaux, Sawley, Roche, Byland and Kirkstall) to facilitate a microhistory of cultural, textual, personnel and architectural comparisons. Post-twelfth century Cistercian history has been understudied, in comparison with research into the euphoria of the order's foundation, and has tended to focus on 'ideals' versus 'reality', whereas this study considers Cistercian houses in terms of contingency, singularity and specificity. The author engages with the work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Henri Lefebvre, all of whom have explored the cultural production of space and the meanings attributed to certain spaces by abstract reference, performative practice and institutional direction. The study is richly illustrated with 45 images of the landscape and space of these houses and enables the reader to see how one monastic order positioned itself in relation to geography, architecture, institution, community and cosmos, and dealt with the dialectic between regulation and imagination, freedom and enclosure. Patrick Geary (UCLA) commends this study as being 'based on a wide reading of Cistercian texts and blends solid text-critical historical scholarship with more conceptual approaches in a most convincing way'.