Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Buildings - Religious

When the author first visited Santa Maria of Melque some years ago, probably the most significant early medieval Hispanic abbey, she realized the need for a fresh look at monastic architecture before the reception of Romanesque traditions. Considering this, the main question of this book deals with the reconstruction of the physical image of monasteries built before the arrival of Augustinian reforms at the end of the eleventh century. The study includes a catalogue of 190 examples with selected bibliographical references, and a critical argument in order to confirm (or reject) the coenobitic...

In his Schweich Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 1972, Father Couasnon describes the history of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in detail, revealing the fresh discoveries which have enabled the site to be planned with a modern au