Title: Western monasticism ante litteram : the spaces of monastic observance in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages /
Authors: Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-; Fentress, Elizabeth.; Stewart, Colomba.; Dossey, Leslie, 1968-; Dell'Acqua, Francesca.; Stewart, Colomba.; Dossey, Leslie, 1968-; Dell'Acqua, Francesca.; American Academy in Rome.
Publisher: Brepols,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Monastic and religious life History Congresses.; Monasticism and religious orders History Congresses.; Space Religious aspects Christianity Congresses.; Monasteries History Congresses.; Architecture and religion Congresses.
Contents: Introduction -- Bringing chaos out of order : new approaches to the study of early western monasticism / Hendrik Day -- Writing spaces : monastic texts and their reception between ideal and reality -- Monastic space and time / Colombia Stewart -- Inventing the holy rule : some observations on the history of monastic normative observance in the early medieval West / Albrecht Diem -- And the villa became a monastery : Sulpicius Severus' community of primuliacum / Roberto Alciati -- Dedicated women and dedicated spaces : Caesarius of Arles and the foundation of St John / Lindsay Rudge -- Regula communis : monastic space and social context / Pablo C. Diaz -- The social space of North African asceticism / Leslie Dossey -- Chasing reality : material culture and archaeology -- The Ribat in the early Islamic world / Hugh Kennedy -- The mediterranean as a frontier : the Ummayad Ribats of Palestine / Yumna Masarwa -- Eremitic settlements and political and military contingencies in the sixth century : the case of the Alto Garda bresciano (Lake Garda, N. Italy) / G.-P. Brogiolo and M. Ibsen -- Early rock-carved monasteries in the northwestern Balkans : an introduction / Silviu Anghel -- Aristocratic euergetism and urban monasteries in tenth-century Rome / Riccardo Santangel Valenzani -- Craft production in early western monasticism : rules, spaces, products / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Inventing ascetic space : houses, monasteries, and the "archaeology of monasticism" / Kim Bowes -- Conclusion -- Concluding remarks / Gisella Cantino Wataghin.