Publication details
Cloister and Chapter House of Medieval Mendicant Monasteries. Relationship between Function, Form and Space
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The presentation presents the issue of the cloisters of Mendicant monasteries in the Middle Ages, which is also the topic of the author's dissertation project. The first part of the presentation is devoted to a more general definition of the topic, while the second part presents one of the specific functions of cross corridors and chapter halls - the cross corridor and chapter hall as a place of burial, including examples. The aim of the work is to link the function and the image of the space in question, with the image being thought of in general as not only a visual perception but as an active component of the whole system. This corresponds to the chosen methodological approach. The presentation also focuses on historical and social aspects related to the function of the cloisters, such as the liturgy and the relationship between religious and laity. The ideal outcome would then be a reconstruction of the relationship between function, form and space in the life of the medieval community. The only way to grasp the space of the cloister not only as an art-historical artefact is to use interdisciplinary study, i.e. art history, history and auxiliary historical sciences and archaeology, in the case of the funerary function, complemented by anthropological analysis. In many cases, we have only the isolated findings of the individual disciplines without placing them in the necessary context. |