Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25180-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 221/5, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sternberg, Maximilian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illiustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
A note on translations

Introduction

PART I. ICONOLOGIES OF CISTERCIAN ARCHITECTURE
1. Medievalist imaginaries
2. Between Romanesque and Gothic

PART II. HORIZONS OF REFORM
3. Monastic and societal renewal
4. Vita activa

PART III. PERMEABLE BOUNDARIES
5. The paradigm of St. Gall
6. From gatehouse to choir screen
7. The inner enclosure

PART IV. CISTERCIANS AND THE CITY
8. Toulouse
9. Paris

Conclusion

Appendix: List of Cistercian abbeys in the Languedoc

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sternberg, Maximilian
Maximilian Sternberg, Ph.D. (2007), University of Cambridge, is University Lecturer in Architecture at that university. He is co-author of The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-editor of Phenomenologies of the City (Ashgate, forthcoming).