Download or read book The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain written by David Martin Robinson and published by Batsford. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Cistercian order in 1098, this is a guide to all the Cistercian abbeys in Britain. The 86 sites include the beautiful ruins of Tintern, Fountains, Rievaulx and Melrose, as well as the home of Sir Francis Drake and the burial place of the last Welsh Prince of Wales. Each gazetteer entry describes the history and architecture of the site and the people connected with it, and there are chapters on the overall history and architecture of the Cistercian order. There are also plans of all the abbeys, a detailed bibliography, and practical details such as grid references and information on access to each site.
Download or read book The White Monks written by Glyn Coppack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England C 1300 1540 written by Michael Carter and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cistercian abbeys of northern England provide some of the finest monastic remains in all of Europe, and much has been written on their twelfth- and thirteenth-century architecture. The present study is the first in-depth analysis of the art and architecture of these northern houses and nunneries in the late Middle Ages, and questions many long-held opinions about the Order's perceived decline during the period c.1300-1540. Extensive building works were conducted between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries at well-known abbeys such as Byland, Fountains, Kirkstall, and Rievaulx, and also at lesser-known houses including Calder and Holm Cultram, and at many convents of Cistercian nuns. This study examines the motives of Cistercian patrons and the extent to which the Order continued to enjoy the benefaction of lay society. Featuring over a hundred illustrations and eight colour plates, this book demonstrates that the Cistercians remained at the forefront of late medieval artistic developments, and also shows how the Order expressed its identity in its visual and material cultures until the end of the Middle Ages.
Download or read book Cistercian Abbeys of Britain written by David M. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the establishment of the Cistercian order in 1098, this is a guide to all the Cistercian abbeys in Britain. The 86 sites include the beautiful ruins of Tintern, Fountains, Rievaulx and Melrose, as well as the home of Sir Francis Drake and the burial place of the last Welsh Prince of Wales. Each gazetteer entry describes the history and architecture of the site and the people connected with it, and there are chapters on the overall history and architecture of the Cistercian order. There are also plans of all the abbeys, a detailed bibliography, and practical details such as grid references and information on access to each site.
Download or read book Cistercian Abbeys written by Jean-François Leroux-Dhuys and published by Konemann UK Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the Cistercian movement resulted in a uniform style of architecture across Europe, noted for its lack of decoration and poetic atmosphere. Cistercian Abbeys traces the chronological development of this movement and depicts its major monasteries in France, England, Ireland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal. A typical Konemann publication: massive in size, superb in illustration.
Download or read book Fountains Abbey written by Glyn Coppack and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging study of Yorkshire's famous Fountains Abbeys.
Download or read book The Cistercian Abbeys of Tipperary written by Colmcille Ó Conbhuidhe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completed posthumously by his editor, this book by a modern Cistercian monk presents a general history of monastic Cistercian life in medieval Ireland, followed by histories of four medieval Cistercian abbeys, namely Inislounaght, Holy Cross, Kilcooly, and Hore (Cashel). It traces the abbeys' paths
Download or read book The Ruined Abbeys of Britain written by Frederick Ross and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Cistercian Monasteries and Their Patrons in the Twelfth Century written by Bennett D. Hill and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This little book is inteded as a study of certain aspects of the Cistercian Order in the first century of its history in Engliand. Although the book's central theme is a constitutional problem, in a broader sense it is concerned with the economic and political influences which shaped the spiritual bases of a monastic institute." [Preface].
Download or read book The Cistercians in the Middle Ages written by Janet E. Burton and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the 11th and 12th centuries. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.
Download or read book The Ruined Abbeys of Britain written by Frederick Ross and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cistercians written by Stephen Tobin and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Throughout Europe, some of the most arresting sites are Cistercian monasteries, where even the most jaded travelers are bewitched by their breathtaking beauty and simplicity. This stunningly photographed architectural study is the most complete visual record available. The feeling of serenity this architecture evokes pervades every cloister, refectory and chapter house with an almost magical sense of harmony." "Stephen Tobin gives a detailed and insightful account of the founding and development of the Cistercian Order, which swept across Europe in the twelfth century. His discussion of architectural practice and the precepts of design behind these enduring monasteries is invaluable; maps covering all of Europe, instructive tables and over too magnificent photographs detail all the male abbeys founded during the Middle Ages, highlighting their style and accessibility. An appendix provides useful information on those converted into hotels, guest houses or restaurants."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings written by Megan Cassidy-Welch and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Cistercians distinguished between material and imagined space, while the landscapes in which they lived were perceived as both physical sites and abstract topographies. Ostensibly, Cistercians lived in intensely regulated and confined physical circumstances in accordance with ideals of enclosure articulated in the Regula S. Benedicti. However, Cistercian representations of space also express ideas of transcendence and freedom. This monograph focuses on the abbeys of northern England during the period 1132-1400 (Fountains, Rievaulx, Jervaulx, Meaux, Sawley, Roche, Byland and Kirkstall) to facilitate a microhistory of cultural, textual, personnel and architectural comparisons. Post-twelfth century Cistercian history has been understudied, in comparison with research into the euphoria of the order's foundation, and has tended to focus on 'ideals' versus 'reality', whereas this study considers Cistercian houses in terms of contingency, singularity and specificity. The author engages with the work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Henri Lefebvre, all of whom have explored the cultural production of space and the meanings attributed to certain spaces by abstract reference, performative practice and institutional direction. The study is richly illustrated with 45 images of the landscape and space of these houses and enables the reader to see how one monastic order positioned itself in relation to geography, architecture, institution, community and cosmos, and dealt with the dialectic between regulation and imagination, freedom and enclosure. Patrick Geary (UCLA) commends this study as being 'based on a wide reading of Cistercian texts and blends solid text-critical historical scholarship with more conceptual approaches in a most convincing way'.
Download or read book The Abbeys of Great Britain written by H. Claiborne Dixon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this work H. Claiborne presents incredible descriptions of the abbeys in several counties of Great Britain. Dixon begins with a historical review of the progress of Monasticism in connection with the Church from the earliest times. The author has put in great effort to explain to the reader in detail the significance of the different abbeys of Great Britain. Contents include: Northern Counties Southern Counties Eastern Counties Western Counties Western Counties Midland Counties Wales Scotland (Northern Counties) Scotland (Southern Counties)
Download or read book Official Guides written by Great Britain. Ministry of Works. Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Late Medieval Cistercian Monastery of Fountains Abbey Yorkshire written by Michael Spence and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1132, Fountains Abbey became the wealthiest English Cistercian monastery - yet relatively little analysis has been made of its surviving records to investigate how its wealth was controlled and sustained. This book deals with this secular aspect of the religious community at Fountains, investigating in particular the way in which prosaic business records were compiled and redacted. It traces the transmission of data from original charters through successive versions of cartularies, and in the process establishes the existence of a previously unknown manuscript. It also reveals how abbots in the fifteenth century interacted with and adapted the records in their care. In this process, two quite different aspects of monastic life are uncovered. First, it sheds new light on the history of Fountains Abbey through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, amongst other things how it responded to the turmoil of the Black Death, and discloses for the first time the allegiance of one abbot to the Lancastrian cause during the Wars of the Roses. Second, it reveals the worldly skills shown by the community of Fountains that were successfully applied to exploit the monastery's large landholdings across Yorkshire, mainly through wool and agricultural production, but also through fisheries, tanning, mining, and metalworking. The economic success of these activities enabled the abbey to become a prosperous institution which rivalled the wealth of the aristocracy. This book addresses recordkeeping and archival memory at one, Cistercian, monastery - albeit a well-endowed and prosperous one - in the north of England. However, its treatment of archival sources could be extended to other houses in different geographical locations and different orders, to enable comparisons between monasteries dealing with economic change and social and political upheaval in the later Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain written by Ralph Adams Cram and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
