IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1026: Cistercian Archaeology

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses
Organiser:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Paper 1026-a	A Road Well-Travelled, or How They Brought the Good News from Clairvaux to Yorkshire: The Beginnings of Cistercian Stone Architecture (Language: English) Glyn Coppack, Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1026-b	Pre- and Early Cistercian Monasteries in the Landscape: The Abbey of The Dunes in Flanders (Language: English) Alexander Lehouck, Abdijmuseum, Koksijde Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life
Paper 1026-c	Croxden Abbey and its Environs (Language: English) Graham Brown, Independent Scholar, Amesbury Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History
Abstract	Paper -a: Encased in later rebuildings, almost half of the first stone cloister at Fountains Abbey survives to full height. We also have the plan of a contemporary church. Burned in 1146, they are the earliest dateable surviving Cistercian buildings in England, and amongst the earliest in Europe. They differ from the great buildings of the 1150s and 60s, but are contemporary with the first cloister buildings at Clairvaux and Vauclair. Where they differ is that they have seen limited excavation that confirms their date. Is this the architecture of St Bernard, who sent Yorkshire-born Henry Murdac from Vauclair to Fountains in 1144 to 'destroying whatever he found in the field of the Lord which had been planted by strangers'? Paper -b: This presentation will be about the current excavations at the abbey of The Dunes in Flanders, including landscape and building history. Paper -c: To be confirmed.