Sacred

ISBN: 9782503531274
Published by : Brepols
The nineteen essays collected here provide significant insights into the medieval life of the longest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Authors investigate icons from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries and offer new interpretations ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533070
Published by : Brepols
This comparative study analyses Cistercian strategies on the northern and north-eastern frontiers of medieval Europe. Through case studies of six houses in Pomerania and Neumark (Kobacz, Marienwalde, and Himmelstädt) and on the Scottish-English... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836230
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Monastic houses following the rule of St. Benedict of Nursia were the most numerous in medieval Europe - their ranks containing several of the continent's wealthiest, most influential and most highly regarded. This study offers an overview of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836162
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Monastic culture has generally been seen as set apart from the medieval battlefield, as `those who prayed' were set apart from `those who fought'. However, in this first study of the place of war within medieval monastic culture, the author sho... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409405818
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Chantries were pious foundations, through which donors, clerks or lay, male or female, endowed priests to celebrate intercessory masses for the benefit of their souls. At St Paul's Cathedral, they were first established in the late twelfth cent... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674053045
Published by : Harvard University Press
A new Latin-English edition of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which governed the lives of monks in monasteries across the medieval world. The rule, originally composed by Benedict of Nursia in the 6th century covers all aspects of organisation, w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300170498
Published by : Yale University Press
The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture for over a century covers buildings constructed between the early 12th century and the Reformation in 1560. From majestic cathedrals and abbeys to modest parish churches and c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780826423931
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
Andrew Jotischky here presents a "culinary history of monasticism", exploring monastic attitudes to food and fasting, as well as asking what monks actually ate in practice. He traces the monastic diet from the extreme asceticism of the early de... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409422280
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Sixteen essays presenting the latest research on medieval architecture. Several present dramatic reinterpretations of canonical monuments including the Abbey of Saint-Denis, Beauvais Cathedral and Notre-Dame in Paris. Others consider broader m... .... Learn More