Inside and Outside the Monastery Walls : The Relationship of Medieval Czech Mendicants' Cloisters and Chapter Houses to their Urban Environment

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.CONVI.5.137631" target="_blank" >10.1484/J.CONVI.5.137631</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Inside and Outside the Monastery Walls : The Relationship of Medieval Czech Mendicants' Cloisters and Chapter Houses to their Urban Environment

Original language description

Already in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Minorite and Dominican orders (or Poor Clares and Dominican women) played an important role in town building in terms of religion and social ties, as well as in architecture and urban development. In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Franciscan Order became important in the same urban environment, contributing with other monasteries to shaping the changing religiosity. This article studies the relationship of Mendicants’ priories – both male and female – to their urban milieux, for which these orders’ monasteries are typical. The area of interest, however, is not the monastic church but the chapter house and the cloister. Despite the presumed rules of enclosure, a lay public can also be envisioned in these spaces, enabling the study of a partial interconnection between the “outer” secular and the “inner” sacred monastic worlds. A combined historical, art historical, archaeological, and anthropological analysis furthers understanding of the conditions under which these interconnections developed. Urban “artistic” and memorial presentations in the monastic context can be traced, along with activities organized in both the cloister (e.g., funerals and processions) and the chapter house, which also served for other types of lay gatherings (e.g., court or guild chapel).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Convivium

ISSN

2336-3452

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

46-63

UT code for WoS article

001159206200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85183142222