"The Kirillov Monastery at White Lake in the far north of the Muscovite state was home to the greatest library, and perhaps the only secondary school, in all of medieval Russia. This volume reconstructs the educational activities of the spiritual fathers and heretofore unknown t…
Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the fi rst centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to diff…
Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the fi rst centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to diff…
"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 diff…
Abendländische Klosterbaukunst
by Braunfels, Wolfgang, Grassi, Ernesto, Hess, Walter
fromDuMont-Dokumente
England was a different place after the dissolution of the monasteries. Between 1536 and 1540, Henry VIII's government dissolved more than eight hundred religious houses and, in doing so, it disrupted patterns and rhythms of daily life that had existed for centuries. Since the E…