Title & Author:

The white mantle of churches : architecture, liturgy, and art around the millennium / edited by Nigel Hiscock.

Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, ©2003.

Description:

xviii, 283 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 30 cm.

Series:

International medieval research. Art history ; v. 10
Art history subseries ; 2

Notes:
Papers originally presented as a conference at the University of Leeds in 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historiarum libri quinque: Book Three, Chapter Four / Rodulf Glaber -- 1. The Ottonian Revival: Church Expansion and Monastic Reform / Nigel Hiscock -- 2. Architectural Developments in the Empire North of the Alps: The Patronage of the Imperial Court / Richard Plant -- 3. Henry II's Renovatio in the Pericope Book and Regensburg Sacramentary / Eliza Garrison -- 4. Monastic Architecture and the Gorze Reforms Reconsidered / Warren Sanderson -- 5. Architecture and Liturgy in England c. 1000: Problems and Possibilities / Helen Gittos -- 6. The Representational Liturgy of the Regularis Concordia / Nils Holger Petersen -- 7. Anglo-Saxon Architecture beyond the Millennium: Its Continuity in Norman Building / Malcolm Thurlby -- 8. Architecture and Liturgical Practice: The Cluniac galilaea / Kristina Kruger -- 9. St. Benigne in Dijon as Exemplum of Rodulf Glaber's Metaphoric 'White Mantle' / Carolyn Malone -- 10. The Architecture and Sculpture of the Eleventh-Century Abbey Church of St. Germain-des-Pres: Their Place in the Millennial Period / Danielle Johnson -- 11. Architecture and Sculpture at Autun around the Millennium / Sylvie Balcon, Walter Berry and Christian Sapin -- 12. Church Building in Northern Italy around the Year 1000: A Reappraisal / Charles B. McClendon -- 13. A New Architecture for a New Order: The Building Projects of Sancho el Mayor (1004-1035) / Janice Mann -- 14. The White Mantle of Churches: Millennial Dynamics, and the Written and Architectural Record / Richard Landes.

Summary:

"When a monk living at the beginning of the last millennium described Europe 'cladding itself everywhere in a white mantle of churches', he precipitated several questions for historians to answer. Was there a surge in church-building at the time? If so, what were the causes of this, and what were the purposes? Does it help to explain our understanding of Romanesque architecture and art? Was there a connection between the 'white mantle of churches' and the millennium? Did people believe the world was coming to an end? The supposition of apocalyptic expectations at the time was until recently dismissed as romantic myth, but the arrival of our new millennium has brought a revival in interest in the dawn of the second millennium, and new evidence of millennial fears. Yet millennial studies and architectural history largely continue to follow separate, parallel paths. This book therefore aims to add the architectural evidence to the millennial debate, and to examine this formative period in relation to the evolution of Romanesque architecture and art. As our own millennium gets under way with continuing hesitancy between European aspiration and national identity, it is also of interest to compare our time with the Europe of a thousand years ago"-- Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

2503512305 (paperback)
9782503512303 (paperback)

Subject:

Liturgy and architecture Europe.
Catholic church buildings Europe.
Millennialism Europe.
Christian art and symbolism Europe Medieval, 500-1500.
Christian art and symbolism Europe Medieval, 500-1500 History.
Liturgie et architecture Europe.
Églises catholiques Europe.
Millénarisme Europe.
Art chrétien Europe 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) Histoire.
Catholic church buildings
Christian art and symbolism Medieval
Liturgy and architecture
Millennialism
Kongress
Kirchenbau
Kunst
Liturgie
Kerkbouw.
Plastieken.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500.
Europe

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Leeds 2000.
Proceedings.
History

Added entries:

Hiscock, Nigel, 1940-
International medieval research (Series) ; 10.
International medieval research (Series). Art history ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234712
Call No.: NA5453.W53 2003
Status: Available