Published in Music in Antiquity, Middle Ages & Renaissance

Keywords: Keywords: Building bridges, Middle Ages, Military life, Religious orders, Rules of Religious Orders.

This article considers the interpenetration of the sacred and profane spheres in the Middle Ages, studying the case of some religious orders destined for temporal and profane purposes, such as the construction of bridges; it focuses, in a special way, on the theological foundation of these orders and the constitutive importance of the rules or statutes for their regular and official existence.