Western Monasticism ante litteram: the spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early middle ages ; [conference at the American Academy in Rome in March 2007]
Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the first centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to differentiate the monk fro...
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| Language: | English |
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Turnhout
Brepols
2011
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Disciplina monastica (7)
Year: 2011 |
| Series/Journal: | Disciplina monastica
7 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Monasticism
/ History 300-1000
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Monasticism and religious orders
History Middle Ages, 600-1500 Congresses
B Conference program 2007 (Vatican Palace) B Monasticism and religious orders History Early church, ca. 30-600 Congresses B Monasteries (Europe) History To 1500 Congresses |
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| Summary: | Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the first centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to differentiate the monk from the rest: whatever else they were supposed to be, monks were beings apart, unique, in some sense separate from the mainstream. The physical contours of monastic topographies, natural and constructed, are thus fundamental to an understanding of how early monks went about defining the parameters of their everyday lives, their modes of religious observance, and their interactions with the larger world around them. |
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| ISBN: | 2503540910 |