Life Inside The Cloister

Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789462701434

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Life Inside the Cloister by Thomas Coomans Pdf

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.

Author : Julie Kerr
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847251619

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Life in the Medieval Cloister by Julie Kerr Pdf

Philosophy.

Author : Agnes M. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Enclosure (Monasticism)
ISBN : CHI:087942877

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Life in the Cloister by Agnes M. Stewart Pdf

Author : Giuseppe Maria Campanella
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Italians
ISBN : HARVARD:HNPM6C

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Life in the Cloister in the Papal Court and in Exile by Giuseppe Maria Campanella Pdf

Author : Julie Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441135926

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Life in the Medieval Cloister by Julie Kerr Pdf

Life in the Medieval Cloister makes extensive use of primary sources and quotations from chronicles, letters, customaries and miracle stories, and the experience of medieval monastic life is presented through the monks' own words. Medievalist Julie Kerr provides day to day account of life in the medieval monastery from the Norman conquest to the Dissolution, with a particular focus on the high Middle ages, exploring such questions as: • What effect did the ascetic lifestyle have on the monks' physical health and mental well-being? • How difficult was it for newcomers to adapt to the rigors of the cloister? • Did the monks suffer from anxiety and boredom; what caused them concern and how did they seek comfort? • What did it really mean to live the solitary life within a communal environment and how significant were issues of loneliness and isolation? Life in the Medieval Cloister makes an important contribution to our understanding of medieval monastic life by exploring key aspects that have been either inadequately addressed or overlooked by historians, but also offers an up close and personal perspective on a fascinating, but little known, corner of history.

Author : Agnes M. Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600058355

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Life in the cloister; or, Faithful and true, by the author of 'The world and the cloister'. by Agnes M. Stewart Pdf

Author : Mary Jo Weaver
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253341841

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Cloister and Community by Mary Jo Weaver Pdf

Cloister and Community is both a history of the Carmelite monastery of Indianapolis and an introduction to the Carmelites, a contemplative order of Roman Catholicism, founded in the 13th century and rededicated as a reform movement for women religious in the 16th century by Teresa of Avila. A key element of the order is that its nuns live an ascetic, cloistered life, but as Mary Jo Weaver demonstrates, the view that one must "leave the world" to find sacred space apart from it has evolved to embrace the notion that the world itself is a sacred space.Weaver focuses on a modern Indianapolis community and describes how the sisters incorporate Carmelite belief and practice into their daily lives. Cloister and Community is a beautifully written and handsomely produced book that offers readers a privileged view of the world of present-day contemplative spirituality.ALSO OF INTEREST Being RightConservative Catholics in AmericaEdited by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott Appleby0-253-32922-1 HB £34.500-253-20999-4 PB £15.50What's LeftLiberal American CatholicsEdited by Mary Jo Weaver0-253-21332-0 HB £30.500-253-21332-0 PB £14.50

Author : Kathleen Norris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1573225843

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The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation.” –The New York Times “A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading.” –The Boston Globe From the iconic author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, a spiritual journey that brings joy to the meanings of love, grace and faith. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world-- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community-- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.

Author : Daphne Sleigh
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781927051399

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The Artist in the Cloister by Daphne Sleigh Pdf

Winner (Honourable Mention), 2014 BC Historical Federation Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. Each year, visitors from all parts of the globe find their way to a sequestered Benedictine monastery in the hills of Mission, BC, and view the art and sculptures that beautify the abbey and its walls. But the man responsible for this work rarely ventures outside the monastery, never mind the province. He is an artist who has seen few of the masterpieces of Western art that inspire him in person; he is a musician who has seldom attended a concert; and he is an intellectual who, at his own insistence, dropped out of high school as early as he could. Acknowledged by some as one of the major British Columbian artists of his generation, Dunstan Massey could have developed a successful public career in Vancouver or Toronto as an artist or musician—or perhaps even as an actor or academic. But none of this happened because at the age of 18 he renounced every one of these possibilities and dedicated his life to God. Daphne Sleigh introduces both the artist and his art in this fascinating and lavishly illustrated new biography.

Author : Christopher Brooke
Publisher : Hidden Spring
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1587680181

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The Age of the Cloister by Christopher Brooke Pdf

Among the most beautiful, spiritual and evocative structures in stone ever built are the medieval monasteries of Europe. The importance of the monastic world, its ideas and ideals, to the rise of Western civilization is second to none. The age of the cloister offers a fascinating overview of the birth and flowering of monasticism, and describes in great detail the everyday monastic life and the faith, literature, economy, architecture and culture of countless monks, hermits, nuns, canons, friars and lay men and women spanning hundreds of years.

Author : Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Abbeys
ISBN : SRLF:D0000147173

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Cloister Life in the Days of Cœvr de Lion by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones Pdf

Author : Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Abbeys
ISBN : NWU:35556040857385

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Cloister Life in the Days of Cœur de Lion by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones Pdf

Author : Sophie Page
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271062976

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Magic in the Cloister by Sophie Page Pdf

During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.

Author : Pamela Anne Patton
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0820472689

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Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister by Pamela Anne Patton Pdf

Praised as paradisiacal or denounced as impious fantasy, the sculpture of Romanesque cloisters played a powerful role in medieval monastic life. This book demonstrates how sculpture in the cloister, the physical and spiritual heart of the religious foundation, could be shrewdly configured to articulate the most influential ideals and experiences of its individual community. Taking as its focus the visually rich, highly organized narrative programs of three twelfth-century Spanish cloisters, this book reveals the power of such imagery to reflect and reinforce the social and spiritual preoccupations of its age.

Author : Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773569416

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A Social History of the Cloister by Elizabeth Rapley Pdf

A Social History of the Cloister is a study of life in teaching convents across France through two hundred years of history, a history that provided the beginnings and inspiration for most of today's institutions for the Catholic education of girls.