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Author : Herbert Bloch
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Herbert Bloch
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : 0674586557
The monastery of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the sixth century, was the cradle of Western monasticism. It became one of the vital centers of culture and learning in Europe. At the height of its influence, in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, two of its abbots (including Desiderius) and one of its monks became popes, and it controlled a vast network of dependencies--churches, monasteries, villages, and farms--especially in central and southern Italy. Herbert Bloch's study, the product of forty years of research, takes as its starting point the twelfth-century bronze doors of the basilica of the abbey, the most significant relic of the medieval structure. The panels of these doors are inscribed with a list of more than 180 of the abbey's possessions. Mr. Bloch has supplemented this roster with lists found in papal and imperial privileges and other documents. The heart of the book is a detailed investigation of the nearly 700 dependencies of Monte Cassino from the sixth to the twelfth century and beyond. No comparable study of this or any other great medieval institution has ever before been undertaken. Ironically, it was the bombing of 1944, which destroyed the monastery, that led to an unexpected revelation: the discovery, on the reverse side of some panels of the doors, of magnificent engraved figures of patriarchs and apostles. These proved to be remnants of the church portal ordered from Constantinople by Desiderius in the eleventh century, which marked the beginning of the grandiose reconstruction of the abbey and its church, the latter to become a model for many other churches. In order to solve the riddle of the doors of Monte Cassino, Bloch has investigated other bronze doors of Byzantine origin in Italy and the doors of the great Italian master Oderisius of Benevento, as well as those of S. Clemente a Casauria and of the cathedral of Benevento. Also included is a study of the political and cultural impact of Byzantium on Monte Cassino and a chapter on Constantinus Africanus, Saracen turned monk, one of the most interesting figures in the history of medieval medicine. The text is sumptuously illustrated with 193 plates; most of the more than 300 illustrations have never before been published. This three-volume work, with its nine detailed indexes, offers a wealth of information for scholars in many different fields.
Author : Herbert Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:984355056
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Kriston R. Rennie
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048552122
Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. This book asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering - and recovery and rebirth - has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph.
Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 4735 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948795
This Encyclopedia gathers together the most recent scholarship on Medieval Italy, while offering a sweeping view of all aspects of life in Italy during the Middle Ages. This two volume, illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource for information on literature, history, the arts, science, philosophy, and religion in Italy between A.D. 450 and 1375. For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages, and more, visit the Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Ittai Weinryb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107123618
This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.
Author : Detlev Jasper,Horst Fuhrmann
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813209196
An examination of the transmission and spread of papal documents in the Latin West between the 4th and 9th centuries. These documents, which were collected from the 5th century onwards, became the basis of canon law. The second part of the volume discusses the prevalence of forged decress which were attributed to the earliest popes.
Author : Armand O. Citarella,Henry M. Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Italy, Southern
ISBN : UVA:X004719099
Author : Francis Newton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521583950
In all the history of hand-written books, one of the most distinctive and handsome scripts is that of the abbey of Monte Cassino. This study examines for the first time in detail the development of this script during the Abbey's greatest period of wealth and influence, under Desiderius (abbot 1058-1087) and his successor Oderisius (abbot 1087-1105). The characteristic Cassinese hand was established long before, but in this period it was transformed into what is today considered its classic form. The present study rests on a fresh examination of many details of the Beneventan (South Italian) script in aspects incompletely studied before. It aims to provide a new history of Monte Cassino as a writing centre and to offer a context for many unique or valuable texts manuscripts that it processed.
Author : Catherine Rider
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191536045
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source: confessors' manuals; medical compendia that discussed many illnesses; commentaries on canon law; and theological commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Although most historians of medieval culture focus on only one or two of these kinds of source, a broader comparison reveals that medieval writers held surprisingly diverse opinions about what magic was, how it worked, and whether it was ever legitimate to use it. Medieval discussions of magically caused impotence also include a great deal of information about magical practices, most of which have not been studied before. In particular, these sources say a great deal about popular magic, a subject which has been particularly neglected by historians because the evidence is scanty and difficult to interpret. Magic and Impotence makes new information about popular magic available for the first time. Magic and Impotence also examines why the authors of legal, medical, and theological texts were so interested in popular magical practices relating to impotence. It therefore uses magically caused impotence as a case-study to explore the relationship between elite and popular culture. In particular, this study emphasizes the importance of the thirteenth-century pastoral reform movement, which sought to enforce more orthodox religious practices. Historians have often noted that this movement brought churchmen into contact with popular beliefs, but this is the first study to demonstrate the profound effect it had on theological and legal ideas about magic.
Author : Gerhart B. Ladner
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : G. A. Loud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050524571
This second volume by Graham Loud focuses on two key centres of the south Italian church in the central Middle Ages. The first section concentrates on the 'golden age' of the abbey of Montecassino, during the 11th and 12th centuries, when it was at the height of its influence and three of its monks became popes. The studies seek to place the abbey in its context, examining its relations with the papacy, Byzantium, and the local nobility. The second part deals with Benevento and the abbey of St Sophia, and looks at its development and administration, as well as the tensions that arose from its position as a papal enclave within the Kingdom of Sicily. Based on extensive archival research, the volume as a whole presents a fresh and original insight into the society of southern Italy from the coming of the Normans to its conquest by Charles of Anjou.
Author : Herbert Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1055112741
Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843839736
A comprehensive survey of the origins, development, and influence of the most important monastic order in the middle ages.