Publication details
In ambitu sepulcra est: Sepulkrální témata ve středověkých mendikantských ambitech a pokus o jejich interpretaci
| Title in English | In ambitu sepulcra est: Sepulchral themes in medieval mendicant cloisters and an attempt to interpret them |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The present paper is a loose continuation of the paper on burials in cloisters and chapter halls in the medieval period, which was presented at the meeting on the issue of sepulchral monuments in 2009 and now reflects on another group of monasteries with an emphasis on the houses of the Mendicant orders. The foundations of medieval monasteries in connection with the establishment of ancestral burial grounds have received considerable attention, but the subject of these works has almost exclusively and understandably been monastic churches. We have fewer written reports and surviving monuments about burials in cloisters, chapter halls and paradise courts, and sometimes we learn about them more from archaeological excavations. Nevertheless, here we find direct and indirect evidence of sepulchral themes too, based on which we can try to interpret the relationship between the funerary and representative functions of these spaces and, figuratively, the influence of monastic life in terms of the functioning of the cloister, the intermingling of the world inside and outside the monastery walls. |