Title & Author:

Monasticism and the arts / edited by Timothy Gregory Verdon with the assistance of John Dally ; foreword by John W. Cook.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1984.

Description:

ix, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Monasticism and Christian culture / Timothy Gregory Verdon -- "Real presence" in early Christian art / William Loerke -- Eastern influences on the Rule of Saint Benedict / Aidan Kavanagh -- Otium monasticum as a context for artistic creativity / Jean Leclercq -- The music for a Cluny office of Saint Benedict / Ruth Steiner -- The Cistercian contribution / Otto von Simson -- The Rule and the book: Cistercian book illumination in Burgundy and Champagne / Walter Cahn -- Lay patronage and monastic architecture: the Norman Abbey of Savigny / Bennett Hill -- Abbot Suger's program for his new abbey church / Sumner McK. Crosby -- Monastic stained glass: patronage and style / Meredith Parsons Lillich -- "By gradual scale sublimed": Dante's Benedict and contemplative ascent / Peter S. Hawkins -- Some monastic and liturgical allusions in an early work of Lorenzo Monaco / Marvin Eisenberg -- The Sacro Monte of Varallo: Renaissance art and popular religion / William Hood -- Contemporary monastic architecture and life in America / R. Kevin Seasoltz.

ISBN:

0815622910
9780815622918
0815622929 (pbk.)
9780815622925 (pbk.)

Subject:

Christianity and the arts.
Monasticism and religious orders.
Arts Aspect religieux Christianisme.
Monachisme et ordres religieux.
Christliche Kunst
Geschichte
Kloster
Kunst
Mönchtum
Orden
Aufsatzsammlung
Monnikenwezen.
Geschichte 300-1980.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Verdon, Timothy, editor, writer of introduction.
Dally, John, editor.
Cook, John W. (John William), 1919- writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 143406
Call No.: PO2391; ID:87-B18389
Status: Available