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Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
Author | : Herbert Bloch |
Publsiher | : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
Author | : Herbert Bloch |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 1584 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Monasticism and religious orders |
ISBN | : 0674586557 |
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The monastery of Monte Cassino, founded by St. Benedict in the sixth century, was the cradle of Western monasticism. It became one of the vital centers of culture and learning in Europe. At the height of its influence, in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries, two of its abbots (including Desiderius) and one of its monks became popes, and it controlled a vast network of dependencies--churches, monasteries, villages, and farms--especially in central and southern Italy. Herbert Bloch's study, the product of forty years of research, takes as its starting point the twelfth-century bronze doors of the basilica of the abbey, the most significant relic of the medieval structure. The panels of these doors are inscribed with a list of more than 180 of the abbey's possessions. Mr. Bloch has supplemented this roster with lists found in papal and imperial privileges and other documents. The heart of the book is a detailed investigation of the nearly 700 dependencies of Monte Cassino from the sixth to the twelfth century and beyond. No comparable study of this or any other great medieval institution has ever before been undertaken. Ironically, it was the bombing of 1944, which destroyed the monastery, that led to an unexpected revelation: the discovery, on the reverse side of some panels of the doors, of magnificent engraved figures of patriarchs and apostles. These proved to be remnants of the church portal ordered from Constantinople by Desiderius in the eleventh century, which marked the beginning of the grandiose reconstruction of the abbey and its church, the latter to become a model for many other churches. In order to solve the riddle of the doors of Monte Cassino, Bloch has investigated other bronze doors of Byzantine origin in Italy and the doors of the great Italian master Oderisius of Benevento, as well as those of S. Clemente a Casauria and of the cathedral of Benevento. Also included is a study of the political and cultural impact of Byzantium on Monte Cassino and a chapter on Constantinus Africanus, Saracen turned monk, one of the most interesting figures in the history of medieval medicine. The text is sumptuously illustrated with 193 plates; most of the more than 300 illustrations have never before been published. This three-volume work, with its nine detailed indexes, offers a wealth of information for scholars in many different fields.
Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages
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Author | : Herbert Bloch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:984355056 |
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Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages vol II pts III IV
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino 529 1964
Author | : Kriston R. Rennie |
Publsiher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789048552122 |
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Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and its impact on modern representations of the past. Exactly how Monte Cassino is remembered is distinctive and diagnostic. The abbey is recognizable today as a beacon of western civilization, culture, and learning precisely because of its 'destruction tradition' over fourteen centuries. This book asks how the abbey's fragmented past has been ideologically, politically, and culturally constituted and preserved; how its experience with destruction and suffering - and recovery and rebirth - has become incorporated into a modern narrative of progress and triumph.
The Bronze Object in the Middle Ages
Author | : Ittai Weinryb |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2016-04-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107123618 |
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This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.
Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages
Author | : Detlev Jasper,Horst Fuhrmann |
Publsiher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813209196 |
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An examination of the transmission and spread of papal documents in the Latin West between the 4th and 9th centuries. These documents, which were collected from the 5th century onwards, became the basis of canon law. The second part of the volume discusses the prevalence of forged decress which were attributed to the earliest popes.
Medieval Italy
Author | : Christopher Kleinhenz |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 4735 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781135948795 |
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This Encyclopedia gathers together the most recent scholarship on Medieval Italy, while offering a sweeping view of all aspects of life in Italy during the Middle Ages. This two volume, illustrated, A-Z reference is a cross-disciplinary resource for information on literature, history, the arts, science, philosophy, and religion in Italy between A.D. 450 and 1375. For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages, and more, visit the Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia website.