Sheila Bonde

• PhD Harvard University
• Christopher Chan and Michelle Ma Professor of the History of Art Brown University at Brown University

The possibility of the remains of a centrally-planned, medieval kitchen at the abbey of the Holy Trinity of Tiron (Thiron-Gardais, Eure-et-Loire, France), led us to conduct a Ground-Penetrating Radar survey in July 2018. The joint interpretation of 2D profiles and 3D temporal slices using Python scripts has highlighted the remains of three walls of...

The idea of withdrawal from secular society was central to the notions of monasticism and monastic architecture. The word derives from μόνος (mónos, Greek for ‘alone’). Christian monasticism made its first traceable appearances at the end of the 3rd century in Egypt and Palestine, though we know little of its architecture at this early stage. The e...

Cambridge Core - Classical Art and Architecture - Reuse and Renovation in Roman Material Culture - edited by Diana Y. Ng

Construction--Deconstruction ......Ourscamp is an open access, digital publication. The article can be accessed through the Medieval Academy of America website, or through the University of Chicago Press website, which publishes the review Speculum for the Academy. The authors do not have a digital version they can upload because there is no need t...

Bell Tyler . The Religious Reuse of Roman Structures in Early Medieval England (BAR British Series 390). 326 pages, 143 figures, 11 tables. 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-835-1 paperback £40. - Volume 80 Issue 310 - Sheila Bonde

This project explores the representation of uncertainty in visualizations for archaeological research and provides insights obtained from user feedback. Our 3D models brought together information from standing architecture and excavated remains, surveyed plans, ground penetrating radar (GPR) data from the Carthusian monastery of Bourgfontaine in no...

The changing milieu of research-increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative-prompts greater emphasis on cultural context and upon partnership with international scholars and diverse community groups. Ethics training, however, tends to ignore the cross-cultural challenges of making ethical choices. This paper confronts those challenges...

The charterhouse of Bourgfontaine was a major foundation, with approximately 24 brothers living in separate cells. An early modern bird's-eye view of the monastery gives us a sense of its scale, but no details. Two GPR surveys (225 and 250 MHz) were carried out: the first, in the area of the chapel behind the church, the second, in a rectangular zo...

Ground plans are commonly used but seldom subjected to critical analysis. This study focuses attention on the church plans of Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp produced since 1876, considering such features as differing numbers of nave bays, an ignored 12th-c. west façade and an unrecognized transept tower, an inaccurately drawn crossing, and a regularized Got...

Monasteries were major contributors to the preservation of ancient knowledge about, as well as innovation in, hydraulic technology during the western Middle Ages. The form of monasticism adopted by the Carthusians combined eremitic isolation with limited communal life, and thus required that water be provided to individual cells as well as to other...

This study reopens the question of Cistercian "first churches" in France. It investigates the architectural, textual and iconographie as well as archaeological evidence for the first church at the Cistercian monastery of Notre Dame d'Ourscamp. It examines the location, form and function of this building across the six centuries of its existence, an...

The Wesleyan‐Brown Monastic Archaeology project (MonArch) integrates research results from standing remains, excavated material culture, and texts from the Augustinian abbey of Saint‐Jean‐des‐Vignes in northern France. The digital dimension of the MonArch project re‐presents the site through three‐dimensional reconstructions of its architecture, in...

The medieval ruins of the abbey church of Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp, built in the 2nd half of the 12th century, are today concealed behind a second façade erected at the beginning of the 18th century. During survey work on the Cistercian façade, an old door was discovered, still in its original position. Dendrochronological dating suggests the tree use...

Cette étude considère l'état de nos connaissances sur la présence de convers à l'abbaye de Saint-Jean- des-Vignes. Sur la base de données picturales, nous suggérons que l'édifice à deux étages, situé avant sa destruction dans la basse-cour de l'abbaye, a servi de bâtiment des convers. Nous attribuons un chapiteau monumental, qui se trouve actuellem...

Fortress-Churches of Languedoc traces the changing relationship between military and religious realms as expressed in architecture across medieval Europe. The scholarship of medieval architecture has traditionally imposed a division between military and ecclesiastical structures. Often, however, medieval churches were provided with fortified enclos...

La fouille de la salle capitulaire de l'ancienne abbaye augustinienne de Saint-Jean-des- Vignes a Soissons (Aisne), menee entre 1982 et 1987, a mis en evidence trois niveaux de circulation allant du XIIIe au XVIe siecle. La fouille et l'enregistrement meticuleux des empreintes superposees de carreaux voles appartenant aux trois sols ont permis la r...

Square chapter rooms divided internally by four piers into nine bays are recognized here as centrally planned. The type seems to have been introduced in the mid-twelfth century, and to have predominated among the reform orders. A newly excavated chapter room of the nine-bay type at the Augustinian abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons provides...

Description of Project M onArch (The Monastic Archaeology Project) is a collaborative project based on the excavations at the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France under the joint directorship of Sheila Bonde (Brown University) and Clark Maines (Wesleyan University). The monastery at St.-Jean-des-Vignes remains with us today in two med...

Vol. 2: Figures. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1982. Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, leaves 289-[321]). Microfiche. s