The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery

The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Monastery

Author: Joann Jovinelly

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2006-08-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781404207592

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Includes instructions for making a monastery model, an illuminated manuscript, an herb garden, and a plague mask from available materials.


The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Cathedral

The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Cathedral

Author: Joann Jovinelly

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2006-08-15

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 9781404207585

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Includes instructions for making a cathedral model, an iconic cross, a chalice, and an incense censer from available materials.


The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor

The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Manor

Author: Joann Jovinelly

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2006-08-15

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9781404207561

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Includes instructions for making a miniature manor, windmill, storage chest, and peasant sack from available materials.


Monasteries and Monastic Orders

Monasteries and Monastic Orders

Author: Kristina Krüger

Publisher: H.F.Ullmann Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783848000630

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This volume explores the lives of monks, nuns and hermits, and the remarkable cultural accomplishments of the cloisters.


Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!

Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It!

Author: Catharine Bomhold

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1598843923

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A valuable, one-stop guide to collection development and finding ideal subject-specific activities and projects for children and teens. For busy librarians and educators, finding instructions for projects, activities, sports, and games that children and teens will find interesting is a constant challenge. This guide is a time-saving, one-stop resource for locating this type of information—one that also serves as a valuable collection development tool that identifies the best among thousands of choices, and can be used for program planning, reference and readers' advisory, and curriculum support. Build It, Make It, Do It, Play It! identifies hundreds of books that provide step-by-step instructions for creating arts and crafts, building objects, finding ways to help the disadvantaged, or engaging in other activities ranging from gardening to playing games and sports. Organized by broad subject areas—arts and crafts, recreation and sports (including indoor activities and games), and so forth—the entries are further logically organized by specific subject, ensuring quick and easy use.


Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe

Religious Poverty and the Profit Economy in Medieval Europe

Author: Lester K. Little

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780801492471

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"In this stimulating and important book Lester Little advances the original thesis that, paradoxically, it was the leading practitioners of voluntary poverty, Franciscan and Dominican friars, who finally formulated a Christian ethic which justified the activities of merchants, moneylenders, and other urban professionals, and created a Christian spirituality suitable for townsmen. Little has synthesized a vast body of specialized literature in Italian, German, French, and English to write an interpretive essay which provides a new perspective on the interaction between economic and social forces and the religious movements advocating the apostolic ideal of voluntary poverty...Little's book is a major contribution, not only to the history of the religious movement of voluntary poverty, but also to the interdisciplinary study of the middle ages." --Journal of Social History


Early Medieval Art

Early Medieval Art

Author: Lawrence Nees

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780192842435

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Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.


The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West

The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West

Author: Alison I. Beach

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 1244

ISBN-13: 1108770630

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Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.


Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds

Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds

Author: Evanthia Baboula

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-04-19

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 9004457143

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Honouring Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds analyzes aspects of the constructed narratives and reconstructed realities of the visual-material record of diverse Mediterranean faith communities from medieval into contemporary times.


Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art

Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art

Author: Heidi C. Gearhart

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13: 0271079819

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In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their works. Written in northern Germany by a monk known only by the pseudonym Theophilus, On Diverse Arts is the only known complete tract on art to survive from the period. It contains three books, each with a richly religious prologue, describing the arts of painting, glass, and metalwork. Gearhart places this one-of-a-kind treatise in context alongside works by other monastic and literary thinkers of the time and presents a new reading of the text itself. Examining the earliest manuscripts, she reveals a carefully ordered, sophisticated work that aligns the making of art with the virtues of a spiritual life. On Diverse Arts, Gearhart shows, articulated a distinctly medieval theory of art that accounted for the entire process of production—from thought and preparation to the acquisition of material, the execution of work, the creation of form, and the practice of seeing. An important new perspective on one of the most significant texts in art history and the first study of its kind available in English, Theophilus and the Theory and Practice of Medieval Art provides fresh insight into the principles and values of medieval art making. Scholars of art history, medieval studies, and Christianity will find Gearhart’s book especially edifying and valuable.