The Ozark Historical Review
Keywords
Carolingian architecture, religious spaces
Abstract
The Carolingian monastery lived in an unresolved tension between the purity of separation from the world and the benefits to be gained from secular engagement. To confront this dilemma, the parts of the monastery received new layers of symbolic meaning, opening some spaces to lay penetration while shielding others more securely. Here I will examine the monastic cloister and the nave of the abbey church as instances of these two tendencies.
Recommended Citation
Treat, John D.
(2013)
"Assertions of Monastic Identity and Power in the Cloister and Nave of St. Gall,"
The Ozark Historical Review: Vol. 42, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ohr/vol42/iss1/4
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