Main entry:

Fergusson, Peter, 1934-2022.

Title & Author:

Rievaulx Abbey : community, architecture, memory / Peter Fergusson and Stuart Harrison ; with contributions from Glyn Coppack.

Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©1999.

Description:

xi, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Notes:
"Published for the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-275) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Abbot William's Monastery -- 3. St. Aelred as Patron of Architecture -- 4. The Opus Dei: The Romanesque Church -- 5. Commemoration and Discussion: The Chapter House -- 6. Work and Rest: The East Range -- 7. Sickness and Age: The Infirmary Complex -- 8. Food and Warmth: The South Range -- 9. The New Monastic Church -- 10. The Suppression / Glyn Coppack -- 11. From Wreck to Ruin -- 12. Rievaulx in the Twentieth Century -- Appendix A. The Stonework and Quarries / John R. Senior -- Appendix B. Tiled Pavements and Floor Decoration / Jenny Stopford -- Appendix C. The Abbots of Rievaulx / Glyn Coppack -- Appendix D. Suppression Documents / Glyn Coppack.

Summary:

"Located in a beautiful tree-sided valley in the North York moors, Rievaulx Abbey stands as one of the pre-eminent medieval ruins in Europe. From 1132, for over 400 years, the monastery served Cistercian monks, and in its early decades was home to a community of 650 men. For the next 400 years, following Henry VIII's Suppression, the deserted buildings have continued to haunt the valley in an unforeseen after-life, stimulating memory of the monks and their spiritual endeavours, notably during the Picturesque and Romantic periods." "This is the first book to study the architecture of Rievaulx viewing the buildings' 800-year history and the varying periods of construction and deconstruction as much in terms of continuity as disruption. In its elucidation of the architecture, extensive reconstruction drawings, and its examination of context, iconography and social and economic factors, this book offers a fuller and more scholarly account of the buildings of a great medieval institution than any currently available."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300078315 (cloth)
9780300078312 (cloth)

Subject:

Rievaulx Abbey (North Yorkshire, England)
Cistercians England.
Abbaye de Rievaulx (North Yorkshire, Angleterre)
Cistercians
Rievaulx / Kloster.
Cistercian architecture England.
Architecture, Medieval England.
Abbeys England.
Architecture cistercienne Angleterre.
Architecture médiévale Angleterre.
Abbayes Angleterre.
Abbeys
Architecture, Medieval
Cistercian architecture
Architektur
Abdij van Rievaulx.
Abdijen.
England
Rievaulx Abbey (Yorkshire, Inglaterra)
Arquitectura cisterciense Inglaterra.
Arquitectura medieval Inglaterra.

Added entries:

Harrison, Stuart A.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210552
Call No.: NA5471.R5 F4 1999
Status: Available