Monasteries of the world : the rise and development of the monastic tradition

Monasteries of the world : the rise and development of the monastic tradition / Christopher Brooke ; photographs by Wim Swaan.

The reader is taken to the most beautiful and evocative stone buildings in the whole of Christendom. ... The book is illustrated with more than 400 plates, plans and maps, and photographs taken by Wim Swaan.--Adapted from book jacket.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brooke, Christopher, 1927-2015
Other Authors: Swaan, Wim
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crescent Books, 1982.
Subjects:
600-1500
Monasteries.
Monasticism and religious orders > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monasticism and religious orders > Middle Ages.
History.
Uniform Title:Monastic world.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: The monastic tradition
  • 1. Prelude ; 2. The Rule of St. Benedict ; 3. The formation of the traditional monasticism ; 4. Life, work & prayer ; 5. The hermits ; 6. The cloister and the world ; 7. The monastic contribution to the twelfth-century renaissance
  • Part 2: New orders
  • 8. The Augustinian canons ; 9. The Cistercians ; 10. The knights ; 11. On abbesses and prioresses ; 12. St. Norbert and St. Francis--the premonstratensians and the friars
  • Part 3: Gathering the threads
  • 13. Three visits ; 14. 1300: the monastic map of Europe ; 15. Epilogue.

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