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Less is Enough: On Architecture and Asceticism
Author(s): Pier Vittorio Aureli (Author)
- Publisher: Strelka Press
- Publication Date: January 1, 2014
- Language: English
- Print length: 64 pages
- ISBN-10: 0992914604
- ISBN-13: 9780992914608
Book Description
Charting the rise of asceticism in early Christianity and its institutionalisation with the medieval monasteries, Pier Vittorio Aureli examines how the basic unit of the reclusive life – the monk’s cell – becomes the foundation of private property. And from there, he argues, it all starts to go wrong.
