Cistercian architecture and medieval society
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Cistercian architecture and medieval society
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 221 . Brill's studies on art,
Brill, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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