"The Hermit's Hut offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. Although architecture continually responds to ascetic compulsions, as in its frequent ...

Introduction : encountering the monastery -- In search of "Drunken Peacocks" : mapping monastic histories from forest to state -- Inscribing asceticism : epigraphic practices and the materiality of ...

gouache heightened with gold on paper, narrow gold borders with black rules, blue border decorated with gold floral scrolls, gold sprinkled margins, black nasta'liq inscription in margin ...