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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Turnhout : Brepols,
2011
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Disciplina monastica
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Disciplina monastica |
| Schlagworte: | Monasticism and religious orders Monasteries Mönchtum Geschichte 300-1000 |
| Umfang: | 387 S. |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Literaturangaben |
| Beschreibung: | 387 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 2503540910 9782503540917 |