Western monasticism ante litteram : the spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Hendrik Dey & Elizabeth Fentress, eds.

• Bringing chaos out of order : new approaches to the study of early Western monasticism / Hendrik Dey -- Monastic space and time / Columba Stewart -- Inventing the Holy Rule : some observations on the history of monastic normative observance in the early medieval West / Albrecht Diem -- And the villa became a monastery : Sulpicius Severus' community of Primuliacum / Roberto Alciati -- Dedicated women and dedicated spaces : Caesarius of Arles and the foundation of St. John / Lindsay Rudge -- Regula communis : monastic space and social context / Pablo C. Díaz -- The social space of North African asceticism / Leslie Dossey -- The ribat in the early Islamic world / Hugh Kennedy -- The Mediterranean as a frontier : the Ummayad ribats of Palestine / Yumna Masarwa -- Eremitic settlements and political and military contingencies in the sixth century : the case of the Alto Garda bresciano (Lake Garda, N. Italy) / G.-P. Brogiolo and M. Ibsen -- Early rock-carved monasteries in the northwestern Balkans : an introduction / Silviu Anghel -- Aristocratic euregetism and urban monasteries in tenth-century Rome / Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani -- Craft production in early Western monasticism : rules, spaces, products / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Inventing ascetic space : houses, monasteries and the "archaeology of monasticism" / Kim Bowes -- Gisella Cantino Wataghin. Concluding remarks. 

• "Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the first centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to differentiate the monk from the rest: whatever else they were supposed to be, monks were beings apart, unique, in some sense separate from the mainstream. The physical contours of monastic topographies, natural and constructed, are thus fundamental to an understanding of how early monks went about defining the parameters of their everyday lives, their modes of religious observance, and their interactions with the larger world around them. The group of eminent historians and archaeologists present at the American Academy in Rome in March, 2007 for the conference 'Western monasticism ante litteram'"--Back cover. 

Ämnesord

Monasticism and religious orders  -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Monasticism and religious orders  -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Monasteries  -- Europe -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses. (LCSH)

Klosterväsen  -- historia (sao)

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