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The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain

Author : David Martin Robinson
Publisher : Batsford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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.

The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, C.1300-1540

Author : Michael Carter
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503581934
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (819 download)

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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.

The White Monks

Author : Glyn Coppack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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:

The Late Medieval Cistercian Monastery of Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

Author : Michael Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503567716
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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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.

The Ruined Abbeys of Britain

Author : Frederick Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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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:

Monastic Spaces and Their Meanings

Author : Megan Cassidy-Welch
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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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'.

Fountains Abbey

Author : Glyn Coppack
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445619954
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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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.

Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles

Author : Christopher Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521181358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Cistercian Art and Architecture in the British Isles written by Christopher Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their introduction in the early twelfth century the Cistercians were one of the leading monastic orders in Britain. Many of the finest monastic remains - Fountains, Rievaulx and Tintern - are Cistercian. This 1986 book is a comprehensive survey of Cistercian art and architecture in the British Isles. The various contributions, all by leading specialists, cover the historical and literary background; the development of Cistercian architecture (especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when the Cistercians were in the forefront of architectural achievement, playing an important role in the introduction and dissemination of the Gothic style); and art forms such as wall painting, stained glass, tile pavements, and manuscript illumination, as well as liturgy and music. These studies reveal what was distinctively Cistercian in the art and architecture of the Order, and permit a distinct understanding of the remarkable contribution of the Cistercians to the culture of medieval Britain.

The Rule of Saint Benedict

Author : Saint Benedict
Publisher : Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1621541851
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Rule of Saint Benedict written by Saint Benedict and published by Wyatt North Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1921 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Abbeys and Priories of Britain

Author : Stephen Platten
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1841659576
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Abbeys and Priories of Britain written by Stephen Platten and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to over 60 of Britain's most notable abbeys and monasteries. Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect introduction to some of the country's oldest and most beautiful religious centres. The guide will take you from the wilds of the Isle of Iona in Scotland and Iona Abbey to Tintern Abbey in the beautiful Wye Valley in Wales, to the pomp and circumstance of Westminster Abbey, shining regally in England's capital. While many of the entries are now ruins due to Henry VIII's 'Dissolution of the Monasteries' period, a visit still reveals the rich influence and legacy they have had on Britain's history. Beautifully illustrated with over 130 stunning colour images, and with concise and accessible history for each entry, this is both a perfect guide and a much-cherished souvenir of a visit. Includes extended entries on Binham Priory, Blanchland Abbey, Buckfast Abbey, Dryburgh, Fountains Abbey, Glastonbury Abbey, Hexham Abbey, Holyrood Abbey, Jedburgh Abbey, Lindisfarne Priory, Melrose Abbey, Mountgrace Priory, Rievaulx Abbey, Selby Abbey, Strata Florida Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tintern Abbey, Westminster Abbey, Whitby Abbey and St George's Windsor.

Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300

Author : Janet Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521377973
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 written by Janet Burton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of monasticism in England, Scotland and Wales from the last half century of Anglo-Saxon England to 1300. It explores the nature of the impact of the Norman settlement on monastic life, and how Britain responded to new, European ideas on monastic life. In particular, it examines Britain's response to the needs of religious women. It covers every aspect of the life and work of the religious orders: their daily life, the buildings in which they lived, their contribution to intellectual developments and to the economy. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between religious houses and their founders and patrons. This shows the degree of dependence of religious houses on local patrons. Indeed, one major theme which emerges from the book is the constant tension between the ideals of monastic communities and the demands of the world.

Gesta Pontificum Anglorum

Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198207702
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Gesta Pontificum Anglorum written by William (of Malmesbury) and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... second volume ... contains an introduction and detailed commentary to accompany the Latin text and translation of the work appearing in Volume I. The introduction presents and analyses the reasons behind the work ... The commentary, linked to the Latin text, discusses problems and questions thrown up by the work, and illustrations appear throughout."--Jacket.

Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles

Author : Julie Kerr
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786833190
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles written by Julie Kerr and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to the study of religious foundations in regional contexts (Yorkshire and Wales), placing importance on social networks for monastic structures and female Cistercian communities in medieval Britain; moreover, she has pioneered research on the canons and their place in medieval English and Welsh societies. This Festschrift comprises contributions by her colleagues, former students and friends – leading scholars in the field – who engage with and develop themes that are integral to Burton’s work. The rich and diverse collection in the present volume represents original work on religious life in the British Isles from the twelfth to the sixteenth century as homage to the transformative contribution that Burton has made to medieval monastic studies in the British Isles.

Rievaulx Abbey

Author : Peter Fergusson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781850749417
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Rievaulx Abbey written by Peter Fergusson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in the beautiful and remote valley of the River Rye, Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132 by monks from Clairvaux in France. It quickly grew to become the pre-eminent Cistercian abbey in Britain. This guide includes a tour and history of the site, illustrated with full-colour maps, reconstruction drawings and historical images.

The Medieval Monastery

Author : Roger Rosewell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747812888
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Monastery written by Roger Rosewell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated look at life in abbeys and priories, and within the monastic orders, in the middle ages. Monasteries are among the most intriguing and enduring symbols of Britain's medieval heritage. Simultaneously places of prayer and spirituality, power and charity, learning and invention, they survive today as haunting ruins, great houses and as some of our most important cathedrals and churches. This book examines the growth of monasticism and the different orders of monks; the architecture and administration of monasteries; the daily life of monks and nuns; the art of monasteries and their libraries; their role in caring for the poor and sick; their power and wealth; their decline and suppression; and their ruin and rescue. With beautiful photographs, it illustrates some of Britain's finest surviving monastic buildings such as the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral and the awe-inspiring ruins of Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire.

The Ledger-book of Vale Royal Abbey

Author : Vale Royal Abbey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Ledger-book of Vale Royal Abbey written by Vale Royal Abbey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order

Author : Mette Birkedal Bruun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107001315
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order written by Mette Birkedal Bruun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Order's figureheads, practical life and spiritual horizon, and its contribution to medieval Europe's religious, cultural and political climate.