| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 188 pages, [100] pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
A way of life in search of an architecture -- The earliest architecture -- The colonization of the north -- The advent of early Gothic -- The cistercian church transformed -- Cistercian architecture i the west country -- Conclusion -- Catalog of individual houses -- Appendixes: -- The dissolution and after -- The builders of cistercian monasteries in England -- Temporary foundations: twelfth-century cistercian houses in England |
| Summary |
"From their arrival in England in 1128 to the end of the twelfth century, the Cistercians established fifty monasteries, including some of the largest and most famous abbeys in the country. The author traces the evolution of Cistercian architecture in England during the this period and explains it as a manifestation both of the order's spiritual aims and of the manifestation of Gothic architecture in France. He shows how the founding houses in France influenced Cistercian architecture in England and how the order's spiritual commitments to poverty and solitude isolated its building from English architectural tradition."--Publisher description |
| Analysis |
England Cistercian monasteries Architectural features, to 1200 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cistercians -- England
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| SUBJECT |
Cistercians fast |
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Cistercian architecture -- England
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Architecture, Medieval -- England
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Abbeys -- England
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Abbeys -- England
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Abbeys
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Architecture, Medieval
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Cistercian architecture
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Kloostergebouwen.
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Cisterciënzers.
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England
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| Genre/Form |
illustrated books.
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Illustrated works
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Illustrated works.
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Ouvrages illustrés.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
83043072 |
| ISBN |
0691201323 |
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9780691201320 |
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