Communicating Crusade. Livonian Mission and the Cistercian Network in the Thirteenth Century
by Marek Tamm
published in 'Ajalooline Ajakiri', no. 3/4, 2009
DownloadIl fronte sud del monastero di san Silvestro in Nonantola in uno schizzo del 1732
in «Memorie. La rivista del Centro Studi Storici Nonantolani», 7 (2007), pp. 7-12
In 1736 the abbot of Nonantola cardinal Alessandro Albani conceded a small piece of garden to the cistercian monks... more In 1736 the abbot of Nonantola cardinal Alessandro Albani conceded a small piece of garden to the cistercian monks living there. The act of granting contains a drawing of 1732 representing the southern side of the monastery, otherwise completely unknown.
4 views
Fishing with Monks - Padise Abbey and the River Vantaanjoki from 1351 to 1429.
Published in: Marjo Poutanen (Ed.), Colonists on the Shores of the Gulf of Finland: Medieval Settlement in the Coastal Regions of Estonia and Finland. Vantaa City Museum Publications, 22. Vantaan Kaupunginmuseo, Lahti 2011, p. 37-64.
The paper discusses the role of Cistercian economic activity in late 14th century and early 15th Century region of... more The paper discusses the role of Cistercian economic activity in late 14th century and early 15th Century region of Nyland (Uusimaa) in Southern Finland. How did the Cistercian Abbey of Padise (Ger. Padis) in Estonia first come into possession of fishing rights for salmon in the River Vantaanjoki in Finland, and what was the significance of these rights for the economy and everyday life of the monastery during the period of the abbey's donation in 1351–1429? What impact did the monks and lay brethren have on the use of the river and the structure of settlement in its area, now in the dense suburban network of Vantaa and Helsinki?
Eine hagiographische Figur meldet sich zu Wort. Zu einem neu entdeckten Text der Helftaer Klosterliteratur, in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur (in Vorbereitung)
zusammen mit Almuth Märker (Leipzig)
Im Prooemium zu einer umfangreichen Exzerpthandschrift des "Legatus divinae pietatis" vom Anfang des 14.... more Im Prooemium zu einer umfangreichen Exzerpthandschrift des "Legatus divinae pietatis" vom Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts meldet sich Gertruds Mitschwester zu Wort und schildert ihre eigene Rolle bei der Verschriftlichung der an Gertrud ergangenen göttlichen Offenbarungen, wobei sie nicht nur den Familien- bzw. Geschlechternamen von Gertrud (ihr wird bereits als einer Verstorbenen gedacht), sondern auch bislang unbekannte Details über die Textgenese verrät. Unter den nachfolgenden Exzerpten findet man zudem eine Reihe von im bekannten Corpus des Legatus nicht bezeugten Texten.
Gertrude of Helfta's "Legatus divinae pietatis". Text Production and Authorship in the Revelatory Literature of Helfta, in: Companion to medieval Northern German mysticism, hg. von ELISABETH A. ANDERSEN und HENRIKE LÄHNEMANN, Leiden: Brill (2012)
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/research/publication/174615
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/about/events/item/Northern-German-Mysticism
The convent of Helfta brought together a group of highly educated women. This paper will concentrate on the... more
The convent of Helfta brought together a group of highly educated women. This paper will concentrate on the transmission of the "Legatus divinae pietatis" (presenting several new manuscripts and unknown texts from Helfta!) and on the question how the genesis of a mystical book is reflected in a text like the "Legatus divinae pietatis": discussion of collective and cooperative authorship, of divine authorisation and the process of codifying revelations against the background of monastic "memoria".
Im Mittelpunkt meines Beitrages stehen die in den Helftaer Texten präsentierten Buchentstehungsgeschichten, wobei ich auch das siebte Buch des „Fließenden Lichts“ Mechthilds von Magdeburg zum Helftaer Textkomplex zählen möchte. Von hier ergeben sich Fragen nach der Funktion der erzählten Buchentstehungsgeschichten, nach den textinternen Autorschaftsvorstellungen und ihrer Wahrnehmung in der spätmittelalterlichen Rezeption des jeweiligen Textes sowie nach den tatsächlichen oder vermeintlichen Entstehungsumständen der in Helfta beheimateten Offenbarungsliteratur. Bei all diesen Fragen gilt es an die neueren Entwicklungen und Fragestellungen in der germanistischen Mediävistik anzuknüpfen, die den editorischen und interpretatorischen Umgang mit den Texten der Früh- und Vormoderne sowie den Instanzen der Textautorisation betreffen. Konkret geht es um die Frage, mit welchem Autor- und Werkbegriff wir bei Texten operieren dürfen, die sich als Ergebnis des kollektiven, jedenfalls kooperativen literarischen Handelns einer Kommunität präsentieren.
Incarceration and liberation: Prisons in the cistercian monastery
Viator 32 (2001), 23-42
This article explores the means by which Cistercians from the thirteenth century were able to use and justify... more This article explores the means by which Cistercians from the thirteenth century were able to use and justify imprisonment in their monastic houses. It traces the invention of the monastic prison from the advent of cenobitic monasticism and explores the discursive construction of captivity as a fundamental element of western monastic life. The author particularly looks at the tension between spiritual understandings of freedom in confinement, and the reality of actual incarceration in a monastic setting. The article positions a history of monastic prisons within specific cultural contexts; in this way, it departs from a traditional reading of imprisonment as part of legal and political history. In tracing the meanings given to imprisonment by Cistercians, the author contends that medieval understandings and uses of imprisonment were closely linked to understandings of space and that the specific historical and ecclesiastical contexts of the early thirteenth century were pivotal to Cistercian justifications of incarceration.
Der inszenierte Blick auf das Gnadenbild und zwei „verletzten“ Figuren in der Zisterzienserklosterkirche Grüssau im 18. Jahrhundert
in: Sehen und Sakralität in der Vormoderne, eds David Ganz and Thomas Lentes, Berlin: Reimer 2011, pp. 200–217 ‹KultBild, 4›
More info and table of contents:
http://www.reimer-mann-verlag.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titelnummer
33 views
Seen by:
Abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame de Grosbot, Charente, recueil de textes, 1121-1791
by Martine Larigauderie-Beijeaud
Published in "Bulletin de l'association pour la Sauvegarde et l'Etude du Patrimoine religieux de la Charente, n°8, 1998"
This book is a compendium of medieval charts and modern acts from the foundation of Grosbot cistercian abbaye to the... more
This book is a compendium of medieval charts and modern acts from the foundation of Grosbot cistercian abbaye to the end in 1791. It gives an insight into its domains and econonomy as well as description of the buildings and church and their state of repair.
Recueil de chartes médiévales, délibérations capitulaires, baux, actes modernes qui donnent un aperçu de la fondation, de la gestion des domaines de l'abbaye de Grosbot, avec aussi des procès verbaux de visites de bâtiments.
Actualization of the Past in Caesarius Of Heisterbach's Dialogus Miraculorum
Published in The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages, ed. L. Doležalová, Leiden: Brill, 2010
Rethinking Classifications through Analogy in Medieval Theoretical Discourse on Music: Two French Approaches
The Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Institut d'Estudis Catalans-Societat Catalana de Musicologia, Barcelona, July 2011
Late medieval music theorists’ discourse on the relative virtues of the arts retained the distinction between the... more
Late medieval music theorists’ discourse on the relative virtues of the arts retained the distinction between the seven liberal ones (which included musica) and the seven mechanical ones: wool-weaving, ironwork, agriculture, navigation, hunting, medicine, and theatrics. The latter enumeration, proposed by English theorist Walter Odington at the close of the thirteenth century, is reminiscent of Hugh of St. Victor’s while also echoing the Opus maius of Roger Bacon—who, in turn, was quoting St. Augustine’s authority. Furthermore, early Renaissance music theorists postulated that the work of cobblers, carpenters, and land cultivators did not belong with the instruments of inquiry into the speculative side of music; and that woodworking, ironworking, shoemaking (or mending), the making of shoe soles, architecture, and painting were manual occupations to be dismissed in scholarly discourse on the superior arts, including music.
Yet in quite a few music theory tracts of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries analogies were used to create bridges between the liberal and mechanical arts. As figures of speech involving elements of palpable reality, analogies reconfigured theoretical discourse, facilitated the understanding of musical concepts, and ultimately improved musical knowledge.
This paper presents two case-studies in connecting the liberal and mechanical arts through analogies inspired by leather preparation and cobbling in France:
The anonymous author of the Musica Guidonis (a Cistercian chant treatise based on the principles evolved by Guido, Abbot of Cherlieu, in the twelfth century) invoked the stretching of cured leather to explicate hexachord mutation as well as accommodating a large chant ambitus in vocal performance. The paper proposes that such an analogy is best read in the context of Cistercian monastic economy, which relayed heavily on in situ mills and tanneries for the preparation and production of both cloth and leather goods, and of which Cherlieu itself was a prime example as attested in contemporary documents.
In the early 14th century, Parisian music theorist Johannes Grocheio posited that just as the crafts of leather preparation and cobbling were mutually beneficial, so, too, theology and canon law, in prescribing the texts or the subject-matter of the sections of the Mass aided the work of the musical artisan. This double analogy discloses the author’s familiarity with at least some of the contemporary Parisian métiers whose bustling headquarters were situated on the Île de la Cité as well as in the Quartier d’Outre-Grant-Pont. The geographic distribution and physical association of trades, directly observed by Grocheio in Paris might easily have been a factor in his adoption of a rather unexpected analogy for the musical embellishment of the text of the Mass. Evidence for reading the analogy in its urban context comes from reconstructed maps of the city, the taille of 1292, Etienne Boileau’s Livre des métiers, the early fourteenth-century Le Dit des rues de Paris, as well as texts of late 13th-century motets.
CISTERCIAN ARCHITECTURES IN PORTUGAL: Insertion in the territory and the actuality of its rehabilitations (presented at THE 2004 CISTERCIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE in conjunction with the 39 th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies / Western Michigan University 6-9 May 2004 / Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
This paper aims to formulate a question, in which is equationed the way a cistercian monastery can be... more
This paper aims to formulate a question, in which is equationed the way a cistercian monastery can be understood as a territorial organism which is inserted in a territory in the way that it adapts the territory, modelling and altering it according to its needs but also as an urban organism in the way in that can be understood as having urban characteristics or even as making integral part of urban reality contributing to its development.
This approach will be based on the cistercian legacy in Portugal through a systematic analysis of the cistercian existences, its appropriation and insertion in the territory. So that this contextualization to be possible, it’s necessary to proceed to the identification of the territorial keywords, which provided the existence of these architectures in Portugal, as well as its integration, its transformation and its permanence in the territory. Besides the geographical and topographical approach it will be also necessary historical, architectonic and urban approaches providing a typology scheme for the chosen sites. In fact, this system should be faced not only as the group of these architectures, but also its rehabilitations, reutilizations and alteration of meanings. The relationship between cistercian architecture and actuality is deeply linked to the subject of how to rehabilitate, which are the actions and the strategies to be used as well which are the methods instruments applied (ex. the importance of Alcobaça’s Charter, June 1998).
How can an ideal of monastic space, based in a specific plan be translated into a material reality? And how does it converge in an appropriation of the ideal space that changes and some times originates cities? How the monastic heritage does interact with the contemporary urban or rural territory? That is, from the planned to the spontaneous, from the regular to the irregular, from the ideal to the reality.
MARTINS, Ana Maria Tavares; O Mosteiro como espaço de recuperação do corpo e do espírito in Mosteiro e Saúde – Cerca, Botica e Enfermaria. Actas do III Encontro Cultural de São Cristóvão de Lafões; Ed. Sociedade do Mosteiro de São Cristóvão de Lafões; São Cristóvão de Lafões, 2008
Pretende-se estabelecer uma relação entre o corpo monástico, o edifício propriamente dito, ou seja, a sua... more
Pretende-se estabelecer uma relação entre o corpo monástico, o edifício propriamente dito, ou seja, a sua arquitectura e o corpo humano tanto a nível dos elementos que lhes dão forma, como a nível das funções que desempenham.
Ir-se-á ter em atenção o importante e vital factor da espiritualidade no espaço monástico assim como a espiritualidade / alma no próprio ser humano.
Tanto o mosteiro como o ser humano são compostos por diversas e distintas partes agregadas num todo com um fim específico que se resume e constitui, em ambos os casos, um todo completo e funcional. Porém, este todo, por vezes, entra em ruptura, apresenta disfunções e patologias. Há que buscar a sua recuperação física ou espiritual. Seja entendida como recuperação física do ser humano, o monge, ou do próprio mosteiro pois ambos não estão isentos de apresentar determinadas patologias que carecem de uma terapia. O Homem busca resposta, conforto espiritual ou mesmo ajuda para as suas maleitas, no mosteiro.
Os mosteiros, em Portugal, surgem inseridos num contexto histórico-social importante, impondo-se quase como se dos percursores da indústria de medicamentos se tratassem.
Mosteiro e Homem, duas formas orgânicas, coerentes, determinadas a atingir um mesmo propósito, ambas dotadas de um corpus e um spiritus que se interrelacionam e interagem.
Medieval Cistercian Heritage: from the Ideal to the the Reality
MARTINS, Ana Maria Tavares; "Medieval Cistercian Heritage: from the Ideal to the the Reality" in Actas do Ist International Meeting EAHN – European Architectural History Network (June 17-20, 2010), Guimarães, Portugal and Book of Abstracts ;Jorge Correia (Ed.); CHAM – Centro de História de Além Mar; EAUM – Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho; EAHN – European Architectural History Network; 2010 (ACTAS: ISBN 978-989-95563-9-3 / BOOK OF ABSTRACTS: ISBN 978-989-96163-2-5)
AS BEIRAS BERÇO DE CISTER EM PORTUGAL: MARCAS DE 9 SÉCULOS DE ARQUITECTURA
MARTINS, Ana Maria Tavares; AS BEIRAS BERÇO DE CISTER EM PORTUGAL: MARCAS DE 9 SÉCULOS DE ARQUITECTURA in Actas del IV Congreso Internacional sobre el Císter en Portugal y en Galicia; Tomo II; Ediciones Monte Casino; Zamora 2010; pp.881-904 (TOMO II: ISBN 978-84-614-1760-5 / OBRA COMPLETA: ISBN 978-84-614-1760-2)