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Medieval Monastic Studies: Saint-Pierre D'Orbais : Social Space and Gothic Architecture at a Benedictine Monastery by Kyle Killian (2025, Hardcover)

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PublisherBrepols Publishers

ISBN-102503613861

ISBN-139782503613864

eBay Product ID (ePID)6078015242

Product Key Features

Number of Pages273 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSaint-Pierre D'orbais : Social Space and Gothic Architecture at a Benedictine Monastery

Publication Year2025

SubjectHistory / Medieval

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Architecture

AuthorKyle Killian

SeriesMedieval Monastic Studies

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight22.3 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Series Volume Number9

SynopsisIntegrated art historical, anthropological, and archaeological approaches offer avenues of investigation into a particular iteration of Gothic style in and around Orbais at the end of the twelfth century that speaks to the aspirations of the brothers who built and lived in the monastery as well as their relationship to the world around them., The fragmentary remains of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Pierre d'Orbais in northwest Champagne preserves a particular iteration of Gothic style and technological achievement as well as the built environment of a community deeply embedded in the world around them. Through their architecture, successive generations of monks of Orbais, whose institutional life stretched from the end of the seventh century to end of the eighteenth century, were constantly seeking to clarify their position in the changing physical and social landscapes they inhabited. Although connected by a shared site, the architectural evidence from Orbais preserves remnants from several episodes of use and reuse. The site is treated thematically, starting with the boundaries that define the site, then the resources that shaped monastic life in this particular location, followed by the monastic landscapes that shaped the community as an institution. These categories reflect both the nature of our evidence for the contexts of building construction and the types of landscapes that were most active for the monastic community at Orbais over the long life of the site. The final chapter resituates the architectural history of the monastic church in light of these interrelated landscapes, contextualizing existing scholarship that treats it as a specifically Gothic monument, and providing lines of connection to medieval built environments more broadly.