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Monasteries and Monastic Orders: 2000 Years of Christian Art and Culture

Monasteries and Monastic Orders: 2000 Years of Christian Art and Culture

Monasteries and Monastic Orders: 2000 Years of Christian Art and Culture

$69.95

Kruger, Kristina

Cl. Koln, 2008

Book ID: 79202

Traces the history of monasticism from its origins in late antiquity through its apex in the High Middle Ages and into the present. The book explores various religious orders and what makes them unique, and includes short biographies of famous abbots, abbesses and monastic scholars. Architecture of monastic complexes and the art and crafts within them is placed within historical and cultural context.

432 pp., 700 color illus.