AREA NORTH OF THE CLOISTER
The workshop for tailors and shoemakers (sartores atque
sutores) occupied a building 45 feet long and 30 feet wide
which extended clear to the sacristy on the north side of
the church. The sacristy is 58 feet long and has at its head
a tower (turris). Alfred Clapham proposed that the sacristy
and the house for the tailors and shoemakers might have
been installed in the masonry of the church of Cluny I,
the western half being converted into the workshop, the
eastern half into the sacristy.[68]
—a hypothesis that Conant
finds plausible.[69]
On the Plan of St. Gall this was the site
for the Abbot's House. A house for the abbot is not mentioned
at any place in the Farfa description.
The absence of a house for the abbot seems due to a
change in the rules concerning the abbot's sleeping accommodations.
The Customs of Udalric, written about 1085,
specifically state that the bed of the abbot was located in
the middle of the monks' dormitory and that it was the
abbot who gave the signal to get up in the morning: In
medio dormitorii est lectus eius prope murum; sonitum ipse
facit quo fratres diluculo ad surgendum excitantur.[70]
Since
the Farfa text fails to mention an abbot's house, this
practice must already have been in effect during the
abbacy of Odilo (995-1049). The beginnings of this development
can be observed in the tenth century monasteries of
Moyen Moutier and Leittlich. In each of these monasteries
the abbot's house was attached to the monks' cloister. To
eliminate the abbot's house entirely, thus to draw him
bodily into the community of sleeping monks, was the
ultimate step. It was the enforcement of a policy proposed
as early as 816 at the synod of Aachen, but revoked at the
synod of 817.[71]
