medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: John Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
> 6) Theobald of Marly (d. 1247). T. (also T. of Vaux-de-Cernay) was a pious
nephew of Louis VII. After service in the court of Philip Augustus he entered
the Cistercian abbey at today's Vaux-de-Cernay (Yvelines) in Île-de-France in
1226, became its prior in 1230, and succeeded as abbot in 1235.
> What remains of the abbey of Vaux-en-Cernay is now a luxury hotel. Herewith
some views, starting with the ruins of the abbey church (at left in the first
view):
there are two quite magnificent, very high quality (albeit twisted) columns
with historiated capitals (Nativity, Dreaming Magiae) from (presumably) the
cloister, surely dating within a decade or so of the foundation of the abbey
(1118) which are now in the Louvre.
they are rare and precious survivals of [one of] the figure style(s) present
in the Chartres <=> Paris region in the period before the "Royal Portals" of
both St. Denis and Chartres, and go some considerable distance towards
exploding the old canard (to the extent that a duck can be exploded) that
there was no "Romanesque" sculpture in that region pre-Suger/Chartres.
i have come across some .jpgs of them on the web, but can't seem to find them
at the moment --some really, really mediocre ones are on that curious
Australian art site which is most notable for hosting a vast quantity of
really, really mediocre images.
i'll try and find the URL to the good ones and post it later.
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the cartulary,
Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux-de-Cernay, de l'ordre de
Cîteaux, au diocèse de Paris : composé d'après les chartes originales
conservées aux archives de Seine-et-Oise / enrichi de notes, d'index et d'un
dictionnaire géographique par MM. Luc. Merlet et Aug. Moutié,... sous les
auspices et aux dépens de M. H. d'Albert, duc de Luynes,...
Paris: H. Plon, 1857-1858
2 tomes en 3 vol. + 1 atlas in-fol.
is on-line.
T. 1 (1118-1250):
http://www.archive.org/stream/cartulairedelab00merlgoog#page/n14/mode/1up
(download) http://books.google.com/books?id=i8EQAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
T. 2:
http://www.archive.org/stream/cartulairedelab01merlgoog#page/n12/mode/1up
(download) http://books.google.com/books?id=PsEQAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8
T. 3 (Planches):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5455505p.r=.langEN
the first Cistercian house in the diocese of Chartres, it was an important
place, both in the region's history and in the history of architecture.
c
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