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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… lion the time-honored typology of a medieval Cistercian monastery. A hypothetical community of twenty-four Cistercian monks attempting to locate on a strip of land on the edge of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is the vehicle used to implement some of the architectural possibilities to …
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Papal-Cistercian Relations: 1198-1241 With Particular Emphasis on France
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Holy vows, worldly manners: monastic space, consumption practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Landen tijdens de middeleeuwen en vroeg moderne tijd. Vetrekpunt van de studie is de Cisterciënzergemeenschap van Clairefontaine. Deze werd gesticht in de 13de eeuw als necropool voor de graven van …
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
… in the 18th century and ASL in the 19th century, Cistercian Sign Language (CSL) had been used extensively by monks for centuries in Europe. This dissertation explores the plausible roots of ASL prior to LSF. These ancestral roots were researched: (A) to determine, from a limited corpus of CSL, if …
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The patronage and benefaction of Cistercian monasteries in the frontier zones of the March of Wales, 1130-c.1256.
The Cistercian plantation in Wales was initiated by the Norman invaders in the south, but within a few decades the Cistercian Order had been enthusiastically adopted by the Welsh princes and their subjects and a family of Welsh Cistercian monasteries established throughout the length and breadth of …
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The Problem of Pendar : a lost abbey in medieval Senghenydd and the transformation of the church in South Wales
… Pendar is known to have had association with the Cistercian Order but its precise status within the order has never been fully understood. Indeed, its very location has never been identified. This thesis therefore offers an investigation of what can be known of Pendar and its significance both …
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An Archaeological Study of Mining in the Early Modern Period and an 18th Century Mining Community Within the Vicinity of the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida
… within a six-kilometre area centred on the Cistercian Abbey of Strata Florida, Wales. The outcome of the research concluded there were more mine workings than had been previously thought, with a total of 19 mines and 22 trials recorded. Archaeological excavations revealed evidence that …
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A monastic landscape: The Cistercians in medieval Leinster
This study endeavours to discuss the Cistercian monasteries of Leinster with regard to their physical location in the landscape, the agricultural contribution of the monks to the broader social and economic world and the interaction between the cloistered monks and the secular world. The various …
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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
… widow, Countess Urraca took monastic vows at the Cistercian nunnery of Santa María de Cañas founded by her grandparents. Within a short time of uniting herself to this monastery, she was chosen as its fourth abbess in 1225, a position she held for thirty-seven years until her death in 1262. …
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Rievaulx Abbey and its social environment, 1132-1300
… other Yorkshire houses as well as continental Cistercian houses is discussed. The core source is the cartulary of Rievaulx abbey. By a careful analysis of the distribution of information, its hierarchy according to certain inferable rules, and the relations between individual entries in the …
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The origins and foundation charter of St. Mary de Voto Tintern County Wexford 1189-1211.
… of the origins and foundation of the former Cistercian abbey of St Mary de Voto at Tintern in County Wexford. The veracity of the legend that the abbey was founded as result of William Marshal’s salvation from a storm at sea when crossing from Wales to Ireland at sometime during the last …
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Significant influences on the creation of the rose windows of Chartres Cathedral
… St. Bernard of Clairvaux, leader of the ascetic Cistercian Order and the creator of the Cistercian style of art, influenced Suger's point of view regarding philosophical, theological and aesthetic matters. Suger favored the Neoplatonic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the …
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L’église de l’abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu
The Cistercian Abbey of “Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu” (Aubel, Belgium) is an architectural complex worthy of great interest, first from a stylistic point of view, because it shows a particular attention paid to regional characteristics of the architecture - and that over centuries - and secondly because …
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The Pastoral Image: Guillaume de Deguileville’s Spiritual Pedagogy in the Pèlerinage Allegories
This thesis examines the Cistercian monk Guillaume de Deguileville’s three allegories: the Pèlerinage de vie humaine (1330 and 1355), the Pèlerinage de l’âme (1355), and the Pèlerinage de Jesus-Christ (1358). The thesis analyses each of these allegories as dream visions filled with ethical and …
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A convention center : a typological approach to the design of an institutional building
… prototype. The assumption is not that the Cistercian monastery was a convention center all along, but that the basic morphology of its plan suggests planning principles with a wider institutional application. This hypothesis is tested by using these principles to evaluate the plans of …
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On Sensorial Encounters with Architecture
… shoreline. The proposal of a spiritual home, a Cistercian monastery on a site that straddles land and water fit ideally with the theme of addressing materiality and abstract representation, the phsycial and spiritual, and the mind and body. Both the site and the program provided a fruitful …
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Pieces of a Puzzle: Fitting Electromagnetic Induction into Geophysical Strategies to Produce Enhanced Archaeological Characterisation
… field systems, burials, modern remains, and a Cistercian abbey; the results of which demonstrate its effective over a diversity of environments. The impact of instrument-based issues on the collected measurements was quantified through a scheme of experiments targeting instrument drift, …
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"On Earth as It Is in Heaven?" The Creation of the Bastides of Southwest France
… cooperation with local landowners who were often Cistercian monasteries or minor nobility. While many studies thus far have focused on the economic and political implications for these charters, which included sales and property taxes that replaced traditional tithing, other scholarship has …
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