Life Inside the Cloister Understanding Monastic Architecture--Tradition, Reformation, Adaptive Reuse |
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| Author:
| Coomans, Thomas |
| Series title: | KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-94-6270-143-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2018 |
| Publisher: | Leuven University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic...
Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic...