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Stéphane Calais
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In wood we trust : les Frères Chapuisat
Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition " Le Buisson Maudit " des Frères Chapuisat à l'abbaye de Maubuisson du 20 mars au 3 novembre 2013.00Les Frères Chapuisat construisent volontiers des architectures où il est difficile de trouver son chemin ou seulement d'entrer. Plus souvent ils préfèrent le bois, à l'instar de leurs précédents projets que sont, entre autres, l'exposition " Avant-post " au CAN à Neuchâtel en 2010 et " La résidence secondaire " à Vercorin en Suisse en 2012. Leur exposition à l'abbaye de Maubuisson vient clôturer cette série d'expositions où leurs interventions prennent la forme d'une construction en bois labyrinthique sur pilotis que le visiteur est invité à pratiquer, à expérimenter, tout en se confrontant à ses peurs et ses propres limites physiques et psychiques.
The White Nuns
Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their own institutions while paying scant attention to the remarkable expansion of abbeys of Cistercian women. Yet by the end of the thirteenth century, Constance Hoffman Berman contends, there were more houses of Cistercian nuns across Europe than of monks. In The White Nuns, she charts the stages in the nuns' gradual acceptance by the abbots of the Cistercian Order's General Chapter and describes the expansion of the nuns' communities and their adaptation to a variety of economic circumstances in France...
The Briennes
The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.
Paris
Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the...
Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture
These volumes propose a renewed way of framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women. Today’s standard division of artist from patron is not seen in medieval inscriptions—on paintings, metalwork, embroideries, or buildings—where the most common verb is 'made' (fecit). At times this denotes the individual whose hands produced the work, but it can equally refer to the person whose donation made the undertaking possible. Here twenty-four scholars examine secular and religious art from across medieval Europe to demonstrate that a range of studies is of interest not just for a particular time and place but because, fro...
Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs
This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally. While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.
The Medieval Village
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Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society
In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. To chart the expansion of nunneries in France and England during the central Middle Ages, he presents statistics and narratives to describe growth in broad historical contexts, with special attention to social and economic change. Venarde explains that in the years 1000–1300 the number of nunneries within Europe grew tenfold. In the eleventh and twelfth centuries, religious institutions for women developed in a variety of ways, mostly outside the self-conscious reform movements that have been the tradition...
