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Cistercian Architectural Purism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

François Bucher
François Bucher
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Yale University
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Abstract

Since the end of the first world war scholars have intensified their research on the Cistercian movement and its 12th-century architecture. In this note dealing with the building code and the structures of a minority group an attempt will be made to analyze the historical and theoretical bases which were responsible for the austerity of the Cistercian oratories. The question will have to be asked if and for how long the community was able to achieve and to maintain an ideally neutral type of monastic architecture, which was intended to be of such simplicity that it would not impose any emotions on the viewer.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , October 1960 , pp. 89 - 105
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1960

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