Brepols Online Books Medieval Monographs Collection 2019 - bob2019mome
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Assassins des pauvres
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Assassins des pauvres show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Assassins des pauvresDonnés à Dieu, les biens fonciers des églises sont réputés inaliénables et les personnes qui tenteraient de s’en emparer sacrilèges et excommuniées. Cependant, derrière un discours parfois très dur à l’encontre des spoliateurs, se cache une réalité des échanges beaucoup plus complexe. Le livre analyse la littérature de combat des clercs carolingiens à la lumière des pratiques foncières de l’époque. Entre les années 820 et 880, les traités visant à définir les biens ecclésiaux se multiplient, au moment même où le système des bénéfices mis en place un siècle plus tôt se voit bouleversé par les rapides mutations que connaît l’empire des Francs. La compétition pour les terres d’église révèle alors tout le jeu de hiérarchisation et de distinction d’une élite mise sous pression.
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The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c. 1300–1540
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c. 1300–1540 show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, c. 1300–1540The Cistercian abbeys of northern England provide some of the finest monastic remains in all of Europe, and much has been written on their twelfth- and thirteenth-century architecture. The present study is the first in-depth analysis of the art and architecture of these northern houses and nunneries in the late Middle Ages, and questions many long-held opinions about the Order’s perceived decline during the period c.1300-1540. Extensive building works were conducted between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries at well-known abbeys such as Byland, Fountains, Kirkstall, and Rievaulx, and also at lesser-known houses including Calder and Holm Cultram, and at many convents of Cistercian nuns. This study examines the motives of Cistercian patrons and the extent to which the Order continued to enjoy the benefaction of lay society.
Featuring over a hundred illustrations and eight colour plates, this book demonstrates that the Cistercians remained at the forefront of late medieval artistic developments, and also shows how the Order expressed its identity in its visual and material cultures until the end of the Middle Ages.
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