IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1511: Cistercians in Search of True Poverty: Inspiration, Reception, Living Practice
Thursday 14 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
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| Organiser: | Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 1511-a | Rich Books of Poor Monks: The Book Painting in Service of Cistercian Spirituality (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 1511-b | Poor Churches of Gray Monks in Lesser Poland: Construction and Decoration (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Monasticism, Technology |
| Paper 1511-c | Poor Monasteries of Grey Monks of Morimond Daughter Houses in Lesser Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Art History - General, Monasticism |
| Abstract | Four papers of session present the problem of poverty in the Cistercian community. Tomasz Węcławowicz considers the reduction of constructive system in Cistercian churches of Lesser Poland in 13th century. Piotr Chojnacki studies texts of St. Bernard of Clairvaux searching the sources of difference and union between the austerity of everyday life and the celebration of Lord’s glory. Dariusz Tabor looks into the inconsistency between severe prescriptions about the decoration of churches and the practice of book illumination in the Cistercian monasteries. Beata Kwiatkowska-Kopka makes an attempt at reconstructing the successive stages of the construction of the Cistercian monasteries in Lesser Poland on the basis of the archaeological and architectural discoveries. |