1st Edition
The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964
By Kriston R. Rennie
Copyright 2021
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transformed its identity. This book examines how such a tumultuous history has been constructed, remembered, and represented from the Middle Ages to the present day. It uses this singular and pivotal case to analyse the historical process of remembering and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, List of Illustrations, Prologue: The Oak Tree, Part I: Animus and Anchor, Chapter 1 - An Enigma: The Legend of Saint Benedict, Chapter 2 - The 'Citadel of Campania': Growth and Prosperity, Part II: Rise and Fall, Chapter 3 - A Destiny Repeated: Episodes of Destruction, Chapter 4 - Floreat Semper: Rebuilding, Stone by Stone, Part III: Preservation and Valorization, Chapter 5 - The People's Patrimony: Defining Historical Value, Chapter 6 - A New Europe: Erasing the Destruction,Epilogue: Lighthouse, Index.
Biography
Kriston R. Rennie is Dean, Faculty of Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Northern British Columbia.
A thoughtful and deeply appreciative study of an important center of religion and learning that has been in meaningful dialogue with the secular world for almost 1, 500 years.,- Charles Hilken, American Benedictine Review, Vol. 73, No. 4,
''Rennie's book provides a compelling history of a unique place on earth, which has been and still is invested with a variety of meanings.'',- Sven Meeder, Radboud University Nijmegen, Early Medieval Europe, 2023, Vol. 31, No. 2,
''Kriston R. Rennie has written a fascinating and important book... The author [...] takes the reader through a riveting intellectual history of an iconic place. Rennie examines a place of cenobitic monasticism and uses it to tell a story of how an architecture of enclosure induced expansive and eventually international ideas''.,- Charles R. Gallagher, Church History, March, 2024, Vol. 92, No. 4
