Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson

432 Pages·2004·132.68 MB·English

by  Terryl Kinder

MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES 11
Cîteaux : Studia et Documenta 13
P
erspectives for
A
an rchitecture
S
of olitude
Essays o n Cistercians , art a n d Architecture
in h o n o u r of Peter Fergusson
edited by terryl n . kinder
BREPOLS I CÎTEAUX

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Perspectives for an
Architecture of Solitude
Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture
in Honour of Peter Fergusson
What was it that gave medieval art and architecture its form and style? What is it that
attracts people to medieval art and architecture, especially that of the Cistercians?
What shaped medieval buildings and determined their embellishments - and what
now determines the way we look at them?
Some of the most intriguing questions in monastic and ecclesiastical architecture
and archaeology are discussed in this tribute to Peter Fergusson and his lifetime of
scholarship as an historian of medieval art and architecture, especially of the
Cistercians.
These thirty-four essays range from a discussion of the earliest Christian legislation
on art (fourth century) to an account of a garden project of 1811 designed to efface
all previous monastic habitation. Between these chronological signposts are studies on
the design, siting, building, and archaeology of churches, infirmaries, abbots'
lodgings, gatehouses, private chambers, grange chapels, and the life lived within and
around them. Geographically, the papers range from the British Isles through Spain,
France, Flanders, and Germany to the centre of the medieval world: Jerusalem.
They treat of the complexities of building and re-building; of architectural and
artistic adaptations to place, period, and political upheaval; of the interrelationship of
text and structure; and of the form, iconography, and influence of some of the great
churches and cathedrals of the Middle Ages. This is a wide-ranging and authoritative
collection of studies which is essential reading for any historian of medieval art and
architecture.
Medieval Church Studies is a series of monographs and, sometimes,
collections devoted to the history of the Western Church from,
approximately, the Carolingian reform to the Council of Trent.
Ir builds on Brepols’ longstanding interest in editions of texts and
primary sources, and presents studies that are founded on a
liiii traditional close analysis of primary sources but which confront
current research issues and adopt contemporary methodological approaches.
This volume is a co-publication with the series Studia et Documenta of the journal
Qteaux: Commentarii cistercienses.
Cover image: Rievaulx Abbey (N. Yorkshire), south transept
from the infirmary cloister (photo: S. Harrison, 1999)
ISBN 2-503-51692-C
9782503516929
Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude
Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture
in Honour of Peter Fergusson
M C S 11
edieval hurch tudies
S D 13
tudia et ocumenta
P
erspectives for an
A S
rchitecture of olitude
Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture
in Honour of Peter Fergusson
Edited by
Terryl N. Kinder
&
BEEPOLS
C î t e a u x
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Contents
An Appreciation vii
T erryl N. Kinder
Peter Fergusson ix
Communal Identity and the Earliest Christian Legislation on Art: 1
Canon 36 of the Synod of Elvira
C onrad R udolph
Richard of Fountains and the Letter of Thurstan: History and Historiography 9
of a Monastic Controversy, St Mary’s Abbey, York, 1132
C hristopher N orton
“According to the Form of the Order”: 35
The Earliest Cistercian Buildings in England and their Context
G lyn C oppack
Rievaulx Abbey: The Early Years 47
Janet Burton
Aelred of Rievaulx and the Institutional Limits of Monastic Friendship 55
Jens R ueffer
Making and Breaking the Bonds: Yorkshire Cistercians and their Neighbours 63
Emilia Jamroziak
The Architecture of the Choir at Clairvaux Abbey: 71
Saint Bernard and the Cistercian Principle of Conspicuous Poverty
Alexandra Gajewski
Culross Abbey 81
R ichard Fawcett
The Late Twelfth-Century Rebuilding of the Cenacle on Mount Sion 101
and the Fortunes of a Style
N icola C oldstream
Savigny and its Saints 109
Lindy G rant
The Lost Choir: What Was Built at Three Cistercian Abbey Churches in Wales? 115
Lawrence Butler
“I lift up mine eyes”: A Re-Evaluation of the Tower in Cistercian Architecture 125
in Britain and Ireland
Stuart H arrison
The Crossing of Fountains Abbey Church 137
M alcolm T hurlby
Tunis basilice innixe: The Western Tower of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Quentin 147
Ellen M. Shortell
The Two Cistercian Plans of Villard de Honnecourt 157
N igel H iscock
Ne aliquis extraneus claustrum intret: 173
Entry and Access at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons
Sheila Bonde and C lark M aines
Chambers, Cells, and Cubicles: 187
The Cistercian General Chapter and the Development of the Private Room
David N. Bell
East of the Cloister: Infirmaries, Abbots’ Lodgings and other Chambers 199
Jackie H all
Cistercian Grange Chapels 213
David H. W illiams
Cistercians in the City: The Church of the Collège Saint-Bernard in Paris 223
M ichael T. Davis
From Flanders to Scotland: The Choir Stalls of Melrose Abbey in the Fifteenth Century 235
T homas C oomans
A Bell-founders Pit at the Cistercian Abbey of Grosbot (Charente) 253
M ark H orton
Stained Glass Panels from Mariawald Abbey in The Cleveland Museum of Art 261
H elen Z akin
De laudibus Virginis Matris: The Untold Story of a Standing Infant Jesus, 269
a Venerating Monk and a Movable Madonna from Dargun Abbey
C hristine Kratzke
Fingerprinting Stone from Saint-Remi in Reims 283
Danielle V. Johnson , with the assistance of Lore H olmes
Predictions, Prophecies, Prose, and Poetry on the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral 291
D onna L. Sadler
Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire: Benedictine with a Cistercian Flavour 301
Jennifer S. Alexander
The Cistercians and the Romanesque Churches of Galicia: Compostela or Clairvaux? 313
James D ’Emilio
Cistercian Influence on the Abbey of the Paraclete? 329
Plotting Data from the Paraclete Book of Burials, Customary, and Necrology
C hrysogonus W addell
Cistercian Threads in the Fabric of Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedrals 341
V irginia Jansen
Cistercian Design in the Choir and Transept of Wells Cathedral 351
C arolyn M arino M alone
Beating their Swords into Set Squares 369
Lisa R eilly
Furness Abbey: A Case Study in Monastic Secularisation 377
Jason W ood
Planting over the Past: 387
An Unknown Episode in the Post-monastic History of Pontigny Abbey
T erryl N. Kinder
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