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Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : As New. Illustrated Edition. glossy full color photo illustrated (cover of book and cover of dustwrapper are identical in appearance) hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto ~ 9"x11"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing. (Pu2001 & nap). tutone illustrated endpapers. glossy full color photo frontis. 207p. + copyright pg. glossy pages throughout. every page illustrated in full color. many full page plates. appendix. [glossary of monastery architecture. monasteries included in UNESCO world heritage list. bibliograpy. index]. religion. ancient history. medieval history. asian history. history of architecture. art history. art books. ~ MONASTERIES embarks on a journey through time to the oldest and most beautiful Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic monasteries in the world. It transports you to St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai, Mor Gabriel Monastery in southern Turkey, and the monastery of St. Anthony in the Egyptian desert. It takes in the cradle of western monasticism at Monte Cassino, Italy, the Hiberno~Scottish monasteries, and the Frankish Imperial abbeys of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Fulda and Reichenau in Germany. It takes you to the monastery of St. Francis at Assisi ,Italy, to Citeaux and Clairvaux in France, and to the other principal Cistercian monasteries. It explores magnificent Baroque abbeys with their breathtaking libraries, as well as impressive monastic buildings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book also examines the great Orthodox monastic tradition~including the monastery of St. John on Patmos, the monastic republic of Mount Athos, and the monasteries of Metéora~as well as monastery buildings in Bulgaria, Russia, and Serbia, and village~like monastic complexes in Romania and Ukraine. It also introduces the monastic traditions of other religions through outstanding examples of their architecture: the Hindu monasteries on Majuli Island, the ashrams of Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo Ghose, the Buddhist monastery temples of Bodh Gaya and Shaolin, the monasteries of Tibet, the temples of Angkor Wat, the ribats of Islam, and the monasteries of the Sufi mystics. The different styles and epochs of monastic architecture are brought to life througt a wealth of photographs, drawings, and ground plans, while a series of special thematic panels highlights how monasteries have been places of both faith and learning.…