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Preaching, Building, and Burying - Friars in the Medieval City (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,443
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Preaching, Building, and Burying - Friars in the Medieval City (Hardcover): Caroline Bruzelius

Preaching, Building, and Burying - Friars in the Medieval City (Hardcover)

Caroline Bruzelius

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Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to apostolic poverty bound friars to donors in an exchange of donations in return for intercessory prayers and burial: association with friars was believed to reduce the suffering of purgatory. Mendicant convents became urban cemeteries, warehouses filled with family tombs, flags, shields, and private altars. As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of monasticism: chapter houses, cloisters, dormitories, and refectories. They also created piazzas for preaching and burying outside their churches. Construction depended on assembling adequate funding from communes, confraternities, and private individuals; it was also sometimes supported by the expropriation of property from heretics. Because of irregular funding, construction was episodic, with substantial changes in scale and design. Choir screens served as temporary west facades while funds were raised for completion. This is the first book to analyze the friars' influence on the growth and transformation of medieval buildings and urban spaces.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2014
First published: August 2014
Authors: Caroline Bruzelius
Dimensions: 254 x 191 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20384-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
Books > Christianity
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LSN: 0-300-20384-5
Barcode: 9780300203844

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