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Author : Colin Platt
Release : 1984
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The Abbeys and Priories of Medieval England by : Colin Platt
Download or read book The Abbeys and Priories of Medieval England written by Colin Platt. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Platt
Release : 1995
Genre : England
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Book Synopsis The Abbeys & Priories of Medieval England by : Colin Platt
Download or read book The Abbeys & Priories of Medieval England written by Colin Platt. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to the ancient monastic buildings of England and Wales, this text covers the history of the religious order which founded each monastery, the architectural features of the buildings, and the lives of the medieval monks and nuns who inhabited them.
Author : James G. Clark
Release : 2007
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism by : James G. Clark
Download or read book The Culture of Medieval English Monasticism written by James G. Clark. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.
Author : Geoffrey N. Wright
Release : 2008-03-04
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Discovering Abbeys and Priories by : Geoffrey N. Wright
Download or read book Discovering Abbeys and Priories written by Geoffrey N. Wright. This book was released on 2008-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is an abbey and does it differ from a priory? This book clarifies the seeming confusion by answering these questions and much more besides. This new edition, in a larger format, includes descriptions of over 200 individual sites open to the public and over 90 colour photographs.
Author : Roger Rosewell
Release : 2012-11-20
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Medieval Monastery by : Roger Rosewell
Download or read book The Medieval Monastery written by Roger Rosewell. This book was released on 2012-11-20. 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.
