The White Mantle of Churches

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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. Front matter (“Contents”, “List of Illustrations”, “Preface to the Series”, “Introduction”, “Historiarum libri quinque: Book Three, Chapter Four”), p. i Free Access The Ottonian Revival: Church Expansion and Monastic Reform, p. 1 Nigel Hiscock https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2797 Architectural Developments in the Empire North of the Alps: The Patronage of the Imperial Court, p. 29 Richard Plant https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2798 Henry II’s Renovatio in the Pericope Book and Regensburg Sacramentary, p. 57 Eliza Garrison https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2799 Monastic Architecture and the Gorze Reforms Reconsidered, p. 81 Warren Sanderson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2800 Architecture and Liturgy in England c. 1000: Problems and Possibilities, p. 91 Helen Gittos https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2801 The Representational Liturgy of the Regularis Concordia, p. 107 Nils Holger Petersen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2802 Anglo-Saxon Architecture beyond the Millennium: Its Continuity in Norman Building, p. 119 Malcolm Thurlby https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2803 Architecture and Liturgical Practice: The Cluniac galilaea, p. 138 Kristina Krüger https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2804 St Bénigne in Dijon as Exemplum of Rodulf Glaber’s Metaphoric ‘White Mantle’, p. 160 Carolyn Malone https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2805 The Architecture and Sculpture of the Eleventh-Century Abbey Church of St Germain-des-Prés: Their Place in the Millennial Period, p. 180 Danielle Johnson https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2806 Architecture and Sculpture at Autun around the Millennium, p. 196 Sylvie Balcon, Walter Berry, Christian Sapin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2807 Church Building in Northern Italy around the Year 1000: A Reappraisal, p. 221 Charles B. McClendon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2808 A New Architecture for a New Order: The Building Projects of Sancho el Mayor (1004–1035), p. 233 Janice Mann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2809 The White Mantle of Churches: Millennial Dynamics, and the Written and Architectural Record, p. 249 Richard Landes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IMR-EB.3.2810 Back matter (“List of Contributors”, “General Index”), p. 265