Monasteries and monastic orders : 2000 years of Christian art and culture / Kristina Krüger ; edited by Rolf Toman ; with a contribution from Rainer Warland ; photographs by Achim Bednorz ; production by Thomas Paffen ; [translated by Katherine Taylor]

Krüger, Kristina

2016, 1st edition. Potsdam : H.f. ullmann. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust- wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404645

Physical description; 431 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 33 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Early monasticism -- Monasticism in the early Middle Ages -- Benedictine monasticism in the high Middle Ages -- Hermitic lifestyles and other reform movements of the 11th century -- The new orders of the 12th century -- The military orders -- Female orders -- The Mendicant orders -- Byzantine monasticism -- The late Middle Ages, the Reformation, and the Counter-Reformation -- The culmination of the Benedictine baroque -- Monasticism and life in religious orders in the 19th and 20th centuries. Subjects; 500-1500. Monastic and religious life History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500. Architecture, Medieval. Architecture, Medieval. Christian art and symbolism Medieval. Monastic and religious life Middle Ages.

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