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Preaching, Building, and Burying
Caroline Astrid Bruzelius
其他書名
Friars and the Medieval City
出版
Yale University Press
, 2014
主題
Architecture / History / Medieval
Architecture / Buildings / Religious
Art / General
Art / History / Medieval
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / Europe / Medieval
Religion / Christian Church / History
ISBN
0300203845
9780300203844
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MVXongEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"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. "--