| Description |
ix, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Monasticism and Christian culture / Timothy Gregory Verdon -- "Real presence" in early Christian art / William Loerke -- Eastern influences on the Rule of Saint Benedict / Aidan Kavanagh -- Otium monasticum as a context for artistic creativity / Jean Leclercq -- The music for a Cluny office of Saint Benedict / Ruth Steiner -- The Cistercian contribution / Otto von Simson -- The Rule and the book: Cistercian book illumination in Burgundy and Champagne / Walter Cahn -- Lay patronage and monastic architecture: the Norman Abbey of Savigny / Bennett Hill -- Abbot Suger's program for his new abbey church / Sumner McK. Crosby -- Monastic stained glass: patronage and style / Meredith Parsons Lillich -- "By gradual scale sublimed": Dante's Benedict and contemplative ascent / Peter S. Hawkins -- Some monastic and liturgical allusions in an early work of Lorenzo Monaco / Marvin Eisenberg -- The Sacro Monte of Varallo: Renaissance art and popular religion / William Hood -- Contemporary monastic architecture and life in America / R. Kevin Seasoltz |
| Analysis |
Christianity and the arts |
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Monasticism and religious orders |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Christianity and the arts.
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Monasticism and religious orders.
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| Author |
Dally, John.
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Verdon, Timothy.
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| LC no. |
83017897 |
| ISBN |
0815622910 |
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0815622929 (paperback) |
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