IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 610: Cistercian Architecture and Landscape
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses |
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| Organiser: | Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny |
| Moderator/Chair: | David N. Bell, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Paper 610-a | New Ideas on the Start and Finish of Kirkstead Abbey (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 610-b | The Architectural Development of 12th-Century Kirkstead (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 610-c | The Landscapes of Cistercian Sheep Farming in Yorkshire (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The archaeology of landscape as well as of buildings will be presented in this session. Kirkstead Abbey will be re-examined from both documentary and architectural points of view. The documentary history does not appear to agree with the architectural detail that survives from the site. Although only one wall remains, careful study of an earthwork survey, refined by a site survey, allows the recovery of the whole claustral plan of this important abbey, a major monument in the development of early Gothic in the north of England. The importance of wool production to the Cistercians is well known, and the earthwork remains in Yorkshire allow analysis of extensive grazing pastures, along with the wide range of buildings and other features. |