IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 505: Premonstratensians and Cistercians: Material and Local Culture
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Ancient Abbeys of Brittany Project |
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Organiser: | Claude Lucette Evans, Department of Language Studies, University of Toronto, Mississauga |
Moderator/Chair: | SĂ©bastien Barret, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris |
Paper 505-a | Irish Premonstratensian Cloisters and Claustral Buildings: Communal Living and Material Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Local History, Monasticism |
Paper 505-b | Cherlieu and Acey: Cistercian Architecture in the Second Half of the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History |
Paper 505-c | Pignorative Contracts and Investments at the Cistercian Abbey of Clairefontaine (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General |
Abstract | Paper-a will discuss the material uncovered in the archaeological excavations at Holy Trinity Abbey on Lough Key, Ireland. It will assess the architecture and archaeology, illustrating the dependence of the white canons on local cultural traditions as well as the European character of the order. Paper-b will discuss the design of the churches of two Cistercian houses in Franche-Comté, Cherlieu and Acey. Because of its precedents, the question arises whether these churches should be considered as local, regional, or Cistercian. Paper-c will discuss the financial information revealed by the cartulary of the Belgian abbey of Clairefontaine where Cistercian nuns used loans through pignorative contracts and what amounted to investments through the purchase of rents to increase their wealth. An attempt will be made to evaluate the assets of the abbey in the second half of the 13th century. |