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Distant Reading Through Ontologies: The Case Study of Catania’s Benedictines Monastery [PDF]
JLIS.it, 2017 In this contribution, we developed a Linked Open Dataset, more specifically an OWL ontology, about the history of the renovation of the Catania’s Benedictines Monastery by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo.
Claudia Cantale +3 more
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Between mysticism and industry: Breuer, the Benedictines and a binder [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2022 In much of the recent literature covering the interaction between religion and aesthetic modernity, modern ‘sacred’ architecture has been understood as an initiative to safeguard an autonomous, separate notion of ‘sacred space’ against the reifying ...
Samuel O’Connor Perks
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The Benedictine Culture of Medieval Iceland
Religions, 2023 The monastic tradition of St Benedict of Nursia inspired and influenced Iceland’s medieval monasteries. Four communities, two each of men and women, which were identified in contemporary records as ‘under the rule of Saint Benedict’, endured for four ...
James G. Clark
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Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages
Acta Theologica, 2022 Mystical handbooks, or how-do-it books describing the path to union with God, was a genre that arose in Western Europe in the 12th century and lasted into the Early Modern period. These works, though rarely original, have often been overlooked, but they
B. McGinn
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Tabularia, 2021 The analysis of the content of the first codicological unit of the manuscript Paris, BnF, lat. 8070 allows us to study how Juvenal was read at Mont Saint-Michel shortly after the arrival of the Benedictines around the year 1000.
Frédéric Duplessis
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The Making of Nordic Monasticism, c. 1076–c. 1350
Religions, 2021 The introduction of regular religious life in the Nordic region is less well-documented than in the neighbouring kingdoms of northern Europe. In the absence of well-preserved manuscript and material remains, unfounded and sometimes distorting ...
James G. Clark
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The Library of St. Peter’s Abbey in Perugia Between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age
TECA, 2014 The essay deals with the Library in the thousand-year old Benedictine Abbey in San Pietro in Perugia. After stating the sources and the studies related to the period from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, the essay examines in depth the history
Fiammetta Sabba
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Polonia Sacra, 2017 This paper presents the practical contribution of three Benedictine monasteries to an integrated ecology, strongly recommended in pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si’.
Bernard Sawicki
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Remarks on the Question of the So-Called Monastic Schools of Architecture
Historical Studies on Central Europe, 2021 The hypothetical interpretation of the beginnings of monastic architecture in Hungary in the eleventh century as corresponding to the Italian origin of the clergy cannot be proved, and the beginning of the dominating role of a three-apsidal, axially ...
Ernő Marosi
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Le monastère des bénédictines à Couvrechef, Caen (Calvados)
In Situ, 2009 The monastery of the Benedictines in Caen (north area of « Couvrechef ») represents an important event in the monastic architecture of the reconstruction in France after the Second world war. The simplicity, even the austerity of its architectural lines,
Alain Nafilyan
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