From martyr to monument : the Abbey of Cluny as cultural patrimony / by Janet T. Marquardt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marquardt, Janet, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders--France--Cluny--History.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Excavations (Archaeology)--France--Cluny.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Cluny (France)--Church history.

Cluny (France).

Cluny (Benedictine abbey)--History.

Cluny (Benedictine abbey).

Conant, Kenneth John, 1894-1984.

Conant, Kenneth John.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the French Revolution and the dissolution of the monastic orders, the great Abbey of Cluny in France was closed and the buildings were sold for materials. This process went on for nearly thirty years, just as a romantic appreciation of the medieval past was gaining popularity. Although the government was unable to halt most of the demolition work, one transept arm with a large and small tower was saved from ruin, along with a few small Gothic buildings and the eighteenth-century cloiste...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; AVANT-PROPOS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-281) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-19302-3

9786612193026

1-4438-0947-0

OCLC:

830168018