Life inside the cloister : understanding monastic architecture : tradition, reformation, adaptive reuse /
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society.00Christian 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 an...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Leuven :
Leuven University Press,
[2018]
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Series: | KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ;
21. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Boek_coomans; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ORIGINS; 1. The Cell; 2. The Rule; 3. The Community; 4. The Church; 5. The Cloister; BUILDING TYPES; 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; 15. Place and Stability; 16. Enclosure and Gender; 17. Liturgy and Identity; 18. Death and Memory; 19. Scale and Growth; AFTERLIFE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; COLOPHON.