Abstract
The article examines some symbolic readings of monastic spaces, for a
period that goes from the IX century through the beginning of the XIII century.
In these various materials – pictures, texts, and, among these, sermons and
treatises, but also writings that wanted to be normative – the common line is
the attempt to read the space of the monastery as bearer of meanings that
refer to a reality of faith, and particularly, according to the anagogic key of
lecture, to the celestial Jerusalem. On the other hand, we can notice in these
materials also a significant reference to the origins, sometimes mediated by
the fidelity to the traditional forms. This double reference, rather than being
an attempt to pass on and guarantee an ideological standardization, seems
to tend to anchor the reality of the monastery to a firm reference, that may
overtake contingencies, and so guarantee the stability of the institution.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Symbolic dispositions and orderings of monastic spaces |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
pagine (da-a) | 365-389 |
Numero di pagine | 25 |
Rivista | RIVISTA DI STORIA DEL CRISTIANESIMO |
Volume | 7 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2010 |
Keywords
- medioevo
- monachesimo
- simboli
- symbols