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Cistercian Abbeys: Simplicity of Life Essay

They always stand on the border of a stream…These valleys, now so rich and productive, wore a very different aspect when the brethren first chose them as the place of their retirement. Wide swamps, deep morasses, tangled thickets, wild impassa Continue Reading...

Architecture Way of Life in Term Paper

..a spirit that is intent on interior things is better served by an absence of decoration and trimming in the things around it" (p. 11). The old order they had left behind provided them with views of what architecture should not be, that is, extravag Continue Reading...