Title: Shaping community :
Authors: McNally, Sheila.; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Archaeopress :
Physical description: viii, 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Communal meals and sacred space at Qumran / Jodi Magness -- Hermitages and spatial analysis : use of space at the Kellia / Nicola Aravecchia -- The Monastery Nekloni in the Egyptian Fayoum / Wlodzimierz Godlewski -- Joining the community of saints : monastic paintings and ascetic practice in early Christian Egypt / Elizabeth Bolman -- Invisible in the community ? The evidence for early women's monasticism in the southern Balkan Peninsula / Carolyn S. Sniveley -- Feeding communities : monasteries and urban development in early medieval Ireland / John Soderberg -- The Makkurian Monasteries of Nubia / Wlodzimierz Godlewski -- Inside and outside the precinct wall : the communities at Cluny / David Walsh -- Bordesley Abbey Precinct : the definition and use of space in an English Cistercian abbey / David Walsh -- How much space did medieval nuns have or need? / Constance Berman. Architecture of semi-religiosity : the Beguinages of the southern Low Countries, thirteenth to sixteenth centuries / Walter Simons -- Shaping a monastery settlement in the late Byzantine Balkans / Svetlana Popovic -- Karyes, capital city of Mt. Athos / Phaidon Hadjantoniou -- Vatopedi Monastery : an example of an Athonite Monastery / Phaidon Hadjantoniou -- Monastery lessons / Garth Rockcastle -- Benedictine monastic architecture / Lee Tollefson.
Notes: "Papers from a symposium held at the Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, March 10-12, 2000."
Subject headings (LCSH): Architecture and religion--Congresses.; Architecture and religion.; Christian antiquities--Congresses.; Monasteries--Congresses.; Monasteries--History--Congresses.; Monasteries--History.; Monasteries.; Monastic and religious life--History--Congresses.; Monastic and religious life--History.