Text translated from the Italian. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Sheryl Frances Chen OCSO. Tautra Mariakloster : the art of returning / Claudio Stercal -- Bernard of Clairvaux and the experience of mystery / Inos Biffi -- A sublime alliance sealed by the hand of god : theology and aesthetic anthropology / Antonio Montanari -- "Deformed beauty" or "beautiful deformity" : the aesthetics of the cross as a mystical ethic of beauty in Bernard of Clairvaux / Pierre-André Burton -- Early Cistercian architecture : originality and functionality of a building model / Xavier Barral i Altet -- Saint Bernard, a builder? The problem with the "Bernardine plan" ; The dawn of Cistercian architecture in Italy (Twelfth to thirteenth centuries) ; Two Cistercian Abbeys in Italy's Po Valley / Roberto Cassanelli -- The architecture of the Cistercian Abbey of Saints Vincenzo and Anastasio at Tre Fontane / Joan Barclay Lloyd -- Cistercians in the Holy Roman empire north of the Alps / Jens Rüffer -- Cistercian architecture in the Iberian Peninsula / James D'Emilio -- Cistercian architecture in Great Britain and Ireland / David M. Robinson -- Cistercians and their architecture in the Baltic Region / Christine Kratzke -- Cistercians in medieval Hungary / Elek Benkó -- Cistercian nuns and art in the Middle Ages / Elisabeth Freeman -- "Ornamenta Ecclesiae Cistercienses" : ornamental art in Cistercian monasteries of the Middle Ages / Christine Kratzke -- Liturgical life as art : Cistercian liturgical objects / Emmanuelle Cazabonne -- Cistercian stained glass / Eric Ramirez-Weaver -- The monastic art of Lectio divina / Michael Casey -- Cistercian miniatures / Joaquin Yarza Luaces -- From storeroom to study : the origin and development of Cistercian libraries / David N. Bell -- Medieval Cistercian seals / David H. Williams -- Cistercian reform of liturgical chant / Claire Maître -- Cistercian granges / David H. Williams -- The principal grange of Fossanova / Igino Vona -- Cistercians and water : the model of the French and Spanish Abbeys / Javier Pérez-Embid -- Cistercian metallurgy / Denis Cailleaux -- Images of Saint Bernard and Cistercians in medieval art / James France -- Cistercians, the Commenda system, and the period of the congregations / Mario Sensi -- Cistercian art in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the German-speaking regions / Markus Thome -- Heiligenkreuz / Markus Thome -- Armand-Jean De Rancé and the Trappists / Dom M. Gérard Dubois -- The quest for a new Cistercian architectural identity in the nineteenth century / Thomas Coomans -- Emblems for a season of fury : the art of Thomas Merton / Paul M. Pearson -- Cistercian architecture of the twentieth century / Maria Antonietta Crippa -- Historic Cistercian Abbey fragments in the United States / Terryl N. Kinder -- Our Lady of Joy : a Cistercian community in East Asia / Anastasius Li and M. Theophane Young -- Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey / Maria Christina Leaño -- Tautra Mariakloster : the art of returning / Sheryl Frances Chen OCSO.
Series:
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; no. 71
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