Preaching, building, and burying : friars and the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.

Main entry:

Bruzelius, Caroline Astrid.

Title & Author:

Preaching, building, and burying : friars and the Medieval city / Caroline Bruzelius.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Description:

xi, 255 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-243) and index.
Introduction: friars in the city -- The invention of a new type of clergy: structures, institutions, ideologies, and space -- The process of institutionalization: Dominic, Francis, and the early buildings -- Mendicant construction strategies -- Into the city -- Money, social practice, and mendicant buildings -- Conclusion.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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 façades 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780300203844 (hardback)
0300203845 (hardback)

Subject:

Dominikaner
Franziskaner
Architecture and society Europe History To 1500.
Architecture, Medieval Europe.
Religious architecture Europe History To 1500.
Space (Architecture) Europe History To 1500.
Friars Europe History To 1500.
Cities and towns, Medieval.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture médiévale.
Villes médiévales.
15.70 history of Europe.
ART History Medieval.
HISTORY Medieval.
ARCHITECTURE History Medieval.
RELIGION Christian Church History.
Religious architecture
Architecture and society
Friars
Space (Architecture)
Kirchenbau
Konvent
Bettelorden
Architektur
Institutionalisierung
Stadt
Bautätigkeit
Klosteranlage
Architecture.
Mendicant orders.
Urban design.
Fund-raising.
Arquitectura i societat Europa Història Fins al 1500.
Arquitectura medieval Europa.
Espai (Arquitectura) Europa Edat mitjana.
Monestirs Europa Edat mitjana.
Pobles i viles Europa Edat mitjana.
Kyrkoarkitektur historia.
Städer historia.
Tiggarordnar historia.
Europe
Italien
1200-1500

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286993
Call No.: BIB 227593
Status: Available

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