Life Inside the Cloister: Understanding Monastic Architecture--Tradition, Reformation, Adaptive Reuse

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-94-6270-143-4
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Kadoc Studies on Religion, Cul

Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society

Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities and played a fundamental part in the reformation of different forms of religious life according to the changing needs of society. The cloister is the focal point of this book because it is both architecture, a physically built reality, and a metaphor for the religious life that takes place within it. Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised Western society.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Coomans, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Understanding Monastic Architecture

Origins. Organising Sacred Space and Time

1. The Cell 2. The Rule 3. The Community 4. The Church 5. The Cloister

Building Types. Identities and Reformations

6. The Abbey 7. The Charterhouse 8. The Castle 9. The Friary 10. The Beguinage 11. The Hôtel-Dieu 12. The College 13. The Palace 14. The House

Characters. Embodying the Sacred

15. Place and Stability 16. Enclosure and Gender 17. Liturgy and Identity 18. Death and Memory 19. Scale and Growth 20. Style

Afterlife. Adaptive Reuse and Heritagisation

21. Destruction and Ruins 22. Manors, Farms and Factories 23. Residential Use 24. Barracks, Arsenals, Prisons and Courthouses 25. University Colleges and Lyceums 26. The Sacredness of Culture

Conclusion. Tradition, Heritage and the Spirit of the Place

Bibliography Index of Places Index of Names Colophon

Über Autor(innen)

Coomans, Thomas
Thomas Coomans is a full professor of architectural history and built heritage conservation at KU Leuven and director of the Advanced Master in Conservation of Monuments and Sites (RLICC), at the Faculty of Engineering Science.