Great Monasteries of Europe
Bernhard Schütz|Henri Gaud
Table of Contents from Great Monasteries Europe Preface WESTERN MONASTICISM The Early Period Anchorites and Cenobites Pachomius Basil Western Roman Augustine Cassian Benedict Nursia the Benedictine Rule Cassiodorus Irish, Scottish, English Monasticism Columban on European Continent Missionaries Germania Boniface Monastic System in Carolingian Large France Aniane Architecture Monastery Donors Proprietary Exemption Immunity Medieval Reform Movements Their Cluny Cluniac Influences Cistercians Hermetic Orders Carthusians Canonical Religious Knights Hospital Mendicant Modern Closure Reformation Counter-Reformation Commendatory Castles Enlightenment, Revolution, Secularization after 1850 IBERIAN PENINSULA Portugal: Alcobaca Batalha Toma Belem Spain: TOLEDO: San Juan de los Reyes VALLADOLID: Colegio Gregorio El Escorial Las Huelgas Reales Cartuja Miraflores Poblet Santes Creus Santo Domingo Silos Ripoll Santillana del Mar Miguel Escalada la Pena Pere Roda FRANCE Saint-Michael-de Cuxa Serrabonne Saint-Martin du Canigou Fontfroide TOULOUSE: Saint-Sernin, Les Jacobins Moissac Valmagne Lerins Senanque Le Thoronet Silvacane Paray--le--Monial Conques Vezelay Tournus, Fontenay, Noirlac, Pontigny, Saint--Benoit--sue--Loire Fontevrault Saint-Savin Royaumont Ourscamp Longpont PARIS: Saint--Martin--des--Champs, Saint--Germain--des--Pres Saint--Denis REIMS: Saint--Remi Jumieges CAEN: Saint--Etienne, Sainte--Trinite Mont--Saint--Michel GREAT BRITAIN England: LONDON: Westminster Abbey Romsey Gloucester Glastonbury FOuntains Rievaulx Whitby Furness Scotland: Dundrennan Melrose Jedburgh CENTRAL EUROPE (Former Holy Empire) Poland (northern): Malbork Pelplin Germany Doberan Chorin Jerichow Konigslutter MAGDEBURG: Liebfrauenkloster Walkenried Gernrode Quedlinburg Paulinzella Alpirsbach Corvey HILDESHEIM: Sankt Michael Loccum Heisterbach, Altenburg COLOGNE: Aposteln, Gross Martin, Maria Kapitol Laach Eberbach Bebenhausen Ebrach Comburg Ellwangen Maulbronn Blaubeuren Salem Reichenau Switzerland: Gallen Einsiedeln Mustair (southern): Ettal Weingarten Ottobeuren Zwiefalten Neresheim Weltenburg, Rohr Metten Austria: Kremsmunster, Florian, Melk, Gottweig Klosterneuberg Lilienfield Heiligenkreuz Zwettl Czech Republic: PRAGUE: Brevnov (Breunau) Kladruby (Kladrau) Krzeszow (Grussau) Legnickie Pole (Wahlstatt) Lubiaz (Leubus) ITALY Stuffarda Vercelli MILAN: Ambrogio, Santa delle Grazie, Maurizio Certosa di Pavia Chiaravalle Milanese della Colomba BRESCIA: Salvatore-- Giulia, Solario VERONA: Zeno VENICE: Gloriosa Dei Frari, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Giorgio Maggiore Pomposa ASSISI: Francesco FLORENCE: Miniato, Novella, Croce, Lorenzo, Marco Monte Oliveto Galgano Fossanova, Casamari ROME: Cecilia, Quattro Coronati, Paolo fuori le mura SUBIACO: Benedetto, Scholastica Angelo Formis (Montecassino) NAPLES: Chiara PALERMO: degli Eremiti Monreale APPENDIX Glossary Bibliography Ground Plans Index Illustration Credits