Make us homepage
Add to Favorites
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Main page » Tag Monasteries

Sort by: date | rating | most visited | comments | alphabetically


Water Technology in the Middle Ages - Cities, Monasteries and Waterworks after the Roman Empire
5
 
 

Water Technology in the Middle Ages - Cities, Monasteries and Waterworks after the Roman EmpireWater Technology in the Middle Ages - Cities, Monasteries and Waterworks after the Roman Empire

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. Roberta Magnusson explores the systems' technologies -- how they worked, what uses the water served -- and also the social rifts that created struggles over access to this basic necessity.

 
  More..
Tags: Monasteries, Middle, Technology, Waterworks, after, Empire, Water, Roman
Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710 - 1062
10
 
 

Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710 - 1062Japanese Fortified Temples and Monasteries AD 710 - 1062

From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks. The tempestuous political rivalries that developed between the different orders of monks and religiously inspired laymen ensured that their temples and monasteries had to be securely sited and robustly defended. This books recreates these enormous fortified monasteries and temples, tracing their development from the 10th century through to the Sengoku Jidai period and the rise of the power of the shogunate under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
 
  More..
Tags: their, century, monasteries, monks, temples, Japanese
A Tale of Two Monasteries - Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
4
 
 

A Tale of Two Monasteries - Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth CenturyA Tale of Two Monasteries - Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century

A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is the first book to systematically compare Westminster Abbey and the abbey of Saint-Denis--two of the most important ecclesiastical institutions of the thirteenth century--and to do so through the lives and competing careers of the two men who ruled them, Richard de Ware of Westminster and Mathieu de Vendôme of Saint-Denis.
 
  More..
Tags: Westminster, Saint-Denis, through, Monasteries, century-and, Century
Life in the Middle Ages - The Monk (VIDEO)
16
 
 

Life in the Middle Ages - The Monk (VIDEO)They were religious men who often lived sequestered from society in self-contained monasteries. In The Monk, students will learn about monastic life in the Middle Ages, exploring the simple lives led by monks, often devoid of many luxuries of the period. Get a firsthand look at the monasteries -- structures that often provided more safety than life in the surrounding areas plagued by war, violence and hunger.


Junior Grades (4-6), Intermediate Grades (7-8) (JI)

 
  More..
Tags: often, monasteries, monks, Grades, Middle, surrounding