Topography and Meaning in Carolingian Monastic Thought
Samuel W. Collins
Carolingian ecclesiastical culture was a of buildings. The volurne construction, and especially monastic under Charlemagne Louis the Pious is striking, certainly greatest wave building in west since reign Constantine. For exhibition 1965 Albrecht Mann counted major buildings (cathedrals, royal palaces, monasteries) Frankish kingdoms begun or expanded between 751 855.1 His survey showed that focus builders overwhelmingly monastic, both renovating existing complexes adding new ones.2 averaged over 50 monasteries renovations each decade their rule. By contrast, Merovingian kings at height power never managed more than quarter volume. Mann’s count 1695 identifiable standing death Lothar 855, 1254 them were monasteries. This on built environment as necessity for life late eighth ninth centuries. Neither older forms native Gallic monasticism, nor even insular missionaries who had exerted so powerful an influence thinking, provided model this close attention to architecture.3 Under Carolingians old Benedictine ideal stability place (stabilitas loci) was, first time west, systematically realized stone.4KeywordsNinth CenturyRoyal PalaceMonastic CommunityTextual ExegesisMonastic LifeThese keywords added by machine not authors. process experimental may be updated learning algorithm improves.
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