Monastic Architecture

Documenti storici sulla “abbazia” di San Michele di Cervignano

by Gabriele Caiazza

published in: Michele, il guerriero celeste. L’Abbazia di S. Michele Arcangelo di Cervignano del Friuli. La storia, lo scavo, il culto, atti del convegno (Cervignano del Friuli, 28-29 settembre 2008), Cervignano del Friuli (UD) 2010, pp. 188-217

The monograph "Michael, the celestial warrior. The Abbey of St. Michael the Archangel in Cervignano of Friuli.... more The monograph "Michael, the celestial warrior. The Abbey of St. Michael the Archangel in Cervignano of Friuli. The history, the digging, the worship" - published in 2010 - contains the proceedings of the homonymous conference held in Cervignano (Udine) at the end of September 2008 on the initiative of the Aquileia Archaeological Group. On pages 188-217, the author of the essay "Historical documents on the 'Abbey' of St. Michael of Cervignano" analyzes the (few) testimonies related to the michaelic 'monasterium' riverside Ausa, the "castrum Ciruiganum" and the surrounding 'silva', the "villa de Siruiana", the 'centa' encircling the 'plebs' with its 'platea', and the "Insula Cirvignani"; also talking about a possible mention of that 'monasterium' in the eighth century, about the ancient (bell) tower, about the presumed "little church" of the eleventh century, about the remains of mosaic floors, about the ambiguities of the term 'monasterium' before the twelfth century and finally about the main stages in the history of the local 'pieve' of St. Michael the Archangel

Nel 2010 è stata data alle stampe la monografia "Michele, il guerriero celeste. L’Abbazia di S. Michele Arcangelo di Cervignano del Friuli. La storia, lo scavo, il culto", contenente gli atti del convegno omonimo svoltosi a Cervignano (Udine) alla fine di settembre del 2008 su iniziativa del Gruppo Archeologico di Aquileia. Alle pagine 188-217, trova spazio il saggio "Documenti storici sulla 'abbazia' di San Michele di Cervignano": in esso l’autore analizza le (poche) testimonianze relative al 'monasterium' micaelitico in riva al fiume Ausa, al "castrum Ciruiganum" e alla 'silva' circostante, alla "villa de Siruiana", alla 'centa' attorniante la 'plebs' con la 'platea' antistante, e alla "Insula Cirvignani"; trattando pure dell’eventuale citazione del 'monasterium' nell’VIII sec., dell’antica torre (campanaria), dell’ipotizzata "chiesetta" dell’XI sec., dei resti musivi pavimentali, della non univocità del termine 'monasterium' prima del XII sec. e infine delle principali fasi della storia della locale 'pieve' di San Michele Arcangelo

La colegiata de Santa María la Real de Xunqueira de Ambía: la recuperación de su pazo prioral

by Rebeca Blanco-Rotea

Co-authored with Nieves Amado Rolán and Sonia García Rodríguez.

Published in 'Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos', Vol 55, No 121 (2008):139-172

[ES] Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos realizados en el Pazo Prioral de la Colegiata de Santa María de... more [ES] Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos realizados en el Pazo Prioral de la Colegiata de Santa María de Xunqueira de Ambía con motivo de su reciente restauración. Los estudios llevados a cabo se basaron en el análisis de la documentación histórica y bibliográfica, el control arqueológico de la remoción de tierras y la lectura estratigráfica de alzados. A través de la información obtenida se ha podido recuperar la evolución constructiva del edificio, reinterpretar su funcionalidad y abrir nuevas vías de estudio sobre la interpretación de su evolución espacial y funcional, así como apuntar algunos aspectos sobre las marcas epigráficas documentadas.

[EN] The results of work carried out at the Priory of the Collegiate Church of Santa María in Xunqueira de Ambía are presented, following its recent restoration.The studies carried out were based on analysing historical and bibliographic documentation, archeological control of earthmoving work, and the stratigraphic reading of elevations. Based on this information, it has been possible to define the constructive evolution of the building, reinterpret its function and open new inroads into explaining its spatial and functional evolution, as well as to describe a series of features relating to the inscriptions documented in the building.

La colegiata de Santa María la Real de Xunqueira de Ambía: la recuperación de su pazo prioral

by Rebeca Blanco-Rotea

Co-authored with Nieves Amado Rolán and Sonia García Rodríguez.

Published in 'Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos', Vol 55, No 121 (2008):139-172

[ES] Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos realizados en el Pazo Prioral de la Colegiata de Santa María de... more [ES] Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos realizados en el Pazo Prioral de la Colegiata de Santa María de Xunqueira de Ambía con motivo de su reciente restauración. Los estudios llevados a cabo se basaron en el análisis de la documentación histórica y bibliográfica, el control arqueológico de la remoción de tierras y la lectura estratigráfica de alzados. A través de la información obtenida se ha podido recuperar la evolución constructiva del edificio, reinterpretar su funcionalidad y abrir nuevas vías de estudio sobre la interpretación de su evolución espacial y funcional, así como apuntar algunos aspectos sobre las marcas epigráficas documentadas.

[EN] The results of work carried out at the Priory of the Collegiate Church of Santa María in Xunqueira de Ambía are presented, following its recent restoration.The studies carried out were based on analysing historical and bibliographic documentation, archeological control of earthmoving work, and the stratigraphic reading of elevations. Based on this information, it has been possible to define the constructive evolution of the building, reinterpret its function and open new inroads into explaining its spatial and functional evolution, as well as to describe a series of features relating to the inscriptions documented in the building.

El Convento Franciscano de San Gil El Real de Madrid

by José Martínez Peñarroya

Martínez Peñarroya, José (1998): El Convento de Franciscanos Descalzos de San Gíl El Real de Madrid. En Andreu, Esther y Palacios, José Santiago, La Plaza de Oriente, Arqueología y Evolución Urbana. Madrid. 121-141

Durante el proceso de remodelación de la Plaza de Oriente de Madrid se produjo el hallazgo de los restos del convento... more Durante el proceso de remodelación de la Plaza de Oriente de Madrid se produjo el hallazgo de los restos del convento de Franciscanos Descalzos de San Gil El Real, que se hallaba próximo al extinto Alcázar. En el presente estudio se exponen los resultados de la excavación arqueológica de los cimientos de la cabecera de la iglesia conventual, así como de parte del edificio monástico.

Los escenarios arquitectónicos del eremitismo hispano: Límites para su estudio

by Francisco J. Moreno Martín

El monacato espontáneo: eremitas y eremitorios en el mundo medieval. XXIV Seminario sobre Historia del monacato, 2011. Aguilar de Campoo, pp. 77-111

El yacimiento de Los Hitos en Arisgotas (Orgaz-Toledo). Reflexiones en torno a cómo ‘se construye’ un monasterio visigodo

by Francisco J. Moreno Martín

Anales de Historia del Arte. Vol. 28, 2008. pp. 13-44

La configuración arquitectónica del monasterio hispano entre la tardoantigüedad y el alto medievo. Balance historiográfico y nuevas perspectivas

by Francisco J. Moreno Martín

Cien años de investigación sobre arquitectura medieval española. Anales de Historia del Arte. Volumen Extraordinario 2009, Madrid, pp. 199-217

Il fronte sud del monastero di san Silvestro in Nonantola in uno schizzo del 1732

by Riccardo Fangarezzi

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.

Las Pousadas de Portugal y la Rehabilitación de Edificios Monásticos para Paradores Turísticos

by Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos

‘Columbans gestohlener Handschuh – ein (Anti-)Fetisch?’

by Albrecht Diem

in: Christina Antenhofer (ed.), Fetisch als heuristische Kategorie. Geschichte – Rezeption – Interpretation, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag 2011, pp.145-165.

Kings, Commoners and Communities: 'Sensing' the Pilgrimage Experience of the English Medieval Church, c. 1170-1550

by Emma Jane Wells

Monastic Research Bulletin, 17 (2011), p. 11-16

The experience of architecture and imagery is a critical area of inquiry for pilgrimage studies. For example, how was... more The experience of architecture and imagery is a critical area of inquiry for pilgrimage studies. For example, how was the building perceived and interpreted? Who were the spectators, and what might the decoration have meant to them? In many cases devotional campaigns – material, architectural or decorative – worked as a visual link between building and spectator, communicating to them the function of the building. Pilgrimage art and architecture was, predominantly, designed to be seen and understood and, as such, played an integral role in the visitor’s experience of a space, accommodating and expecting multiple responses whilst inspiring a reaction of the senses. Thus, these aesthetic schemes communicated; they were intended to be read and cannot be divorced from the spaces they inhabited or the people they affected

Das Ende des Monastischen Experiments. Liebe, Beichte und Schweigen in der Regula cuiusdam ad virgines (mit einer Übersetzung im Anhang)

by Albrecht Diem

in: Gert Melville and Anne Müller, Female vita religiosa between Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages. Structures, developments and spatial contexts. Vita Regularis, Abhandlungen, vol. 47, Münster/Berlin 2011, pp. 81-136.

Il monastero di Santo Stefano del lago: prime ricerche sui resti architettonici

by Diego Peirano

Il monastero di Santo Stefano del lago prime ricerche sui resti architettonici, in G. COCCOLUTO, G. COMINO, I. FERRARO, L. FRANCHINO (a cura di), Beinette: la pieve e il territorio. Pagine per una storia della comunità, Cuneo, Società per gli studi storici della provincia di Cuneo 2004 (Storia e storiografia, XXXIX), pp. 129-140.

L'inscription arabe de Kilwa: nouvelle lecture

by Saba FARES

published in Semitica and Classica, 2011

This article is a revisioning of the Arabic inscription of Kilwa (Saudi Arabia). It is about a Christian community... more This article is a revisioning of the Arabic inscription of Kilwa (Saudi Arabia). It is about a Christian community which introduced very elaborated hydraulic system that enable them to grow fruits, surprisingly thing in desert.

Materiali lapidei dal chiostro del monastero di S. Quirico di Populonia. Aspetti del ciclo produttivo e organizzazione del cantiere

by Riccardo Belcari

published in V Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, Palazzo della Dogana, Salone del Tribunale (Foggia) - Palazzo dei Celestini, Auditorium (Manfredonia), 30 settembre-3 ottobre 2009, edd. G. Volpe, P. Favia.

Review of Archéologie et architecture d'un site monastique (Paris, 1999), by Christian Sapin

by Florin Curta

he Medieval Review 02.03.04

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

by Ana Maria Tavares Martins

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; ‘As marcas do legado cisterciense na região das Beiras’ in “RIPAM3-3º Encontro internacional do Património Arquitectónico do Mediterrânico” 15 a 17 de Outubro 2009

by Ana Maria Tavares Martins

MARTINS, Ana Maria Tavares; The Monastery as the City of God: Ideals and Reality. Sta Maria de Alcobaça, a portuguese case in “THE PLANNED CITY?”; Ed. Attilio Petruccioli, Michele Stella, Giuseppe Strappa; vol. III; Union Gráfica Corcelli Editrice; Bari 2003

by Ana Maria Tavares Martins

Martins, Ana Maria Tavares; ‘O CONVENTO DE ORGENS – VESTÍGIOS DA PRESENÇA FRANCISCANA EM VISEU (Portugal)’ in “III Congresso Internacional sobre Franciscanismo”, Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), 15 – 17 de Outubro de 2009 (Espanha)

by Ana Maria Tavares Martins

 
Sobranceiro ao Monte Salvado, na povoação de Quintela de Orgens, concelho de Viseu (Portugal), os... more  
Sobranceiro ao Monte Salvado, na povoação de Quintela de Orgens, concelho de Viseu (Portugal), os frades franciscanos edificaram, nos primórdios do século XV, uma casa conventual conhecida por Convento de Orgens ou por S. Francisco do Monte de Orgens, ligado à Província franciscana da Conceição e fundado pelo frade galego Pedro de Alemancos.
Desde o momento da fundação até à extinção o convento foi alvo de várias reabilitações arquitectónicas. Do edifício conventual, hoje, apenas restam algumas ruínas e a igreja, que após a extinção das Ordens religiosas em 1834, foi adstrita à paróquia como igreja matriz, desde 1841.
Abordar-se-á a sua arquitectura, inserida no âmbito das arquitecturas das Ordens mendicantes, como também se fará referencia ao percurso humano e artístico desde convento capuchinho do século XV até à igreja paroquial no século XXI.
De igual modo se fará menção à presença dos franciscanos naquelas paragens que criou uma profunda relação de comunidade entre as gentes de Orgens e a cidade de Viseu (Portugal) ao ponto de muitos nobres e aristocratas terem contribuído de forma significativa para a subsistência do convento e ali terem sido sepultados. Também é de destacar o facto deste convento ter sido dos primeiros a possuir um relógio mecânico com rodas de ferro, obra do franciscano frei João da Comenda, natural de S. Pedro do Sul.
Finalmente abordar-se-á a interligação entre a comunidade franciscana de Orgens e as autoridades civis e eclesiásticas de Viseu que levou à criação de novos espaços conventuais naquela cidade, desde a primeira metade do século XVII.