IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 540: Cistercians, II: How Were the Sites of Cistercian Abbeys in the British Isles Determined?

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Cîteaux: Commentarii cisterciences, Pontigny
Organiser:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Moderator/Chair:	Terryl N. Kinder, _Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses_, Pontigny
Paper 540-a	Regional Differences of Cistercian Abbeys in Wales, Scotland, the Island of Ireland, and England (Language: English) Bernadette Brady, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Monasticism
Paper 540-b	To Orient or Not to Orient?: The Statistical Test for Intentionality (Language: English) Fabio Silva, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Monasticism
Paper 540-c	St Michael in the Middle Ages and His Possible Role among the Cistercians (Language: English) Darrelyn Gunzburg, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Hagiography, Monasticism
Abstract	These presentations will build on research published in 2016 when the team set out to investigate the sun's role in the churches of the 11 extant Cistercian Abbeys in Wales by treating each abbey within its setting, rather than ignoring the landscape around it as previous similar studies had done. That research will be extended by looking at Cistercian abbey churches in England, Scotland, and the island of Ireland.