Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude: Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson

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What was it that gave medieval art and architecture its form and style? What is it that attracts people to medieval art and architecture, especially that of the Cistercians? What shaped medieval buildings and determined their embellishments - and what now determines the way we look at them? Some of the most intriguing questions in monastic and ecclesiastical architecture and archaeology are discussed in this tribute to Peter Fergusson and his lifetime of scholarship as an historian of medieval art and architecture, especially of the Cistercians. These thirty-four essays range from a discussion of the earliest Christian legislation on art (fourth century) to an account of a garden project of 1811 designed to efface all previous monastic habitation. Between these chronological signposts are studies on the design, siting, building, and archaeology of churches, infirmaries, abbots’ lodgings, gatehouses, private chambers, grange chapels, and the life lived within and around them. Geographically, the papers range from the British Isles through Spain, France, Flanders, and Germany to the centre of the medieval world: Jerusalem. They treat of the complexities of building and re-building; of architectural and artistic adaptations to place, period, and political upheaval; of the interrelationship of text and structure; and of the form, iconography, and influence of some of the great churches and cathedrals of the Middle Ages. This is a wide-ranging and authoritative collection of studies which is essential reading for any historian of medieval art and architecture. Front matter (“Contents”, “An Appreciation”, “Peter Fergusson”), p. i Free Access Communal Identity and the Earliest Christian Legislation on Art: Canon 36 of the Synod of Elvira, p. 1 Conrad Rudolph https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1837 Richard of Fountains and the Letter of Thurstan: History and Historiography of a Monastic Controversy, St Mary’s Abbey, York, 1132, p. 9 Christopher Norton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1838 “According to the Form of the Order”: The Earliest Cistercian Buildings in England and their Context, p. 35 Glyn Coppack https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1839 Rievaulx Abbey: The Early Years, p. 47 Janet Burton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1840 Aelred of Rievaulx and the Institutional Limits of Monastic Friendship, p. 55 Jens Rüffer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1841 Making and Breaking the Bonds: Yorkshire Cistercians and their Neighbours, p. 63 Emilia Jamroziak https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1842 The Architecture of the Choir at Clairvaux Abbey: Saint Bernard and the Cistercian Principle of Conspicuous Poverty, p. 71 Alexandra Gajewski https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1843 Culross Abbey, p. 81 Richard Fawcett https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1844 The Late Twelfth-Century Rebuilding of the Cenacle on Mount Sion and the Fortunes of a Style, p. 101 Nicola Coldstream https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1845 Savigny and its Saints, p. 109 Lindy Grant https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1846 The Lost Choir: What Was Built at Three Cistercian Abbey Churches in Wales?, p. 115 Lawrence Butler https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1847 “I lift up mine eyes”: A Re-Evaluation of the Tower in Cistercian Architecture in Britain and Ireland, p. 125 Stuart Harrison https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1848 The Crossing of Fountains Abbey Church, p. 137 Malcolm Thurlby https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1849 Turris basilice innixe: The Western Tower of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Quentin, p. 147 Ellen M. Shortell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1850 The Two Cistercian Plans of Villard de Honnecourt, p. 157 Nigel Hiscock https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1851 Ne aliquis extraneus claustrum intret: Entry and Access at the Augustinian Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons, p. 173 Sheila Bonde, Clark Maines https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1852 Chambers, Cells, and Cubicles: The Cistercian General Chapter and the Development of the Private Room, p. 187 David N. Bell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1853 East of the Cloister: Infirmaries, Abbots’ Lodgings and other Chambers, p. 199 Jackie Hall https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1854 Cistercian Grange Chapels, p. 213 David H. Williams https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1855 Cistercians in the City: The Church of the Collège Saint-Bernard in Paris, p. 223 Michael T. Davis https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1856 From Flanders to Scotland: The Choir Stalls of Melrose Abbey in the Fifteenth Century, p. 235 Thomas Coomans https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1857 A Bell-founders Pit at the Cistercian Abbey of Grosbot (Charente), p. 253 Mark Horton https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1858 Stained Glass Panels from Mariawald Abbey in the Cleveland Museum of Art, p. 261 Helen Zakin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1859 De laudibus Virginis Matris: The Untold Story of a Standing Infant Jesus, a Venerating Monk and a Movable Madonna from Dargun Abbey, p. 269 Christine Kratzke https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1860 Fingerprinting Stone from Saint-Remi in Reims, p. 283 Danielle V. Johnson, Lore Holmes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1861 Predictions, Prophecies, Prose, and Poetry on the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral, p. 291 Donna L. Sadler https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1862 Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire: Benedictine with a Cistercian Flavour, p. 301 Jennifer S. Alexander https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1863 The Cistercians and the Romanesque Churches of Galicia: Compostela or Clairvaux?, p. 313 James D’Emilio https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1864 Cistercian Influence on the Abbey of the Paraclete? Plotting Data from the Paraclete Book of Burials, Customary, and Necrology, p. 329 Chrysogonus Waddell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1865 Cistercian Threads in the Fabric of Canterbury and Salisbury Cathedrals, p. 341 Virginia Jansen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1866 Cistercian Design in the Choir and Transept of Wells Cathedral, p. 351 Carolyn Marino Malone https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1867 Beating their Swords into Set Squares, p. 369 Lisa Reilly https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1868 Furness Abbey: A Case Study in Monastic Secularization, p. 377 Jason Wood https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1869 Planting over the Past: An Unknown Episode in the Post-monastic History of Pontigny Abbey, p. 387 Terryl N. Kinder https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MCS-EB.3.1870 Back matter (“Index nominum”), p. 401