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SYNOPSIS
OF THE WORK
A skeletal list of its main divisions
views the work at a glance, on facing pages
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Walter Horn
FOREWORD by Wolfgang Braunfels
CONTENTS: VOLUME I
SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK
ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE by Walter Horn
VOLUME I
I.1 PREVIOUS LITERATURE
I.2 THE DEDICATORY LEGEND
I.3 ABBOT GOZBERT, ORDERER & RECEIVER OF THE PLAN
I.4 THE MAKER OF THE PLAN: BISHOP HAITO OF BASEL?
I.5 EXPLANATORY LEGENDS & SCRIPTORIAL
HOME of the PLANI.6 ORIGINAL OR COPY?
I.6 THE PLAN & its RELATION to the MONASTIC REFORM
MOVEMENTI.8 PRESUMABLE DATE of the PLAN
I.9 THE PROTOTYPE PLAN
I.10 HOW THE PLAN WAS DRAWN AND ASSEMBLED
I.11 THE CONCEPTUAL HOMOGENEITY of the PLAN
I.12 METHOD OF RENDERING
I.13 OMISSIONS AND OVERSIGHTS
I.14 SCALE CONSTRUCTION METHODS USED IN
DESIGNING the PLANI.15 THE PROBLEM OF SCALE & FUNCTION
I.16 THE PLAN & THE ROMAN CASTRUM
I.17 NUMERI SACRI 3 4 7 10 12 40
I
PREVIOUS LITERATURE, ORIGIN,
PURPOSE AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS
II.1 DESCRIPTION
II.2 RECONSTRUCTION
II.3 HISTORICAL EVALUATION
II
THE MONASTERY CHURCH
III.1 THE CLOISTER OF THE MONKS
III.2 NOVITIATE AND INFIRMARY
III.3 THE ABBOT'S HOUSE
III
THE CLOISTERS & THE ABBOT'S HOUSE
IV.1 THE MONASTIC OFFICIALS
IV.2 THE MONKS
IV.3 LAYMEN
IV.4 NUMBER OF MONKS AND SERFS
IV.5 THE MONASTERY'S MILITARY OBLIGATIONS
IV.6 THE MONASTERY AS A MANORIAL CORPORATION
IV.7 THE MONASTERY AS A CULTURAL INSTITUTION
IV
THE MONASTIC POLITY

VOLUME II
CONTENTS: VOLUME II
SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II
V.1 PREVIOUS INTERPRETATIONS
V.2 PREHISTORIC, PROTOHISTORIC & EARLY MEDIEVAL
PROTOTYPES OF GUEST & SERVICE BUILDINGS
OF THE PLAN OF ST. GALLV.3 THE ST. GALL HOUSE:
ITS TYPOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATIONV.4 CRITERIA OF RECONSTRUCTION I
V.5 SURVIVING MEDIEVAL HOUSES OF THE
TYPE OF ST. GALLV.6 CRITERIA OF RECONSTRUCTION II
V.7 DEVICES FOR HEATING, LIGHTING, VENTILATION,
BAKING AND COOKINGV.8 FACILITIES FOR THE RECEPTION OF VISITORS
V.9 OUTER SCHOOL & LODGING of the SCHOOLMASTER
V.10 MEDICAL FACILITIES
V.11 THE HOUSES FOR WORKMEN AND CRAFTSMEN
V.12 HOUSE OF THE GARDENER & MONKS'
VEGETABLE GARDENV.13 THE CEMETERY AND ORCHARD
V.14 FACILITIES FOR STORAGE AND THRESHING OF GRAIN
V.15 FACILITIES FOR GRINDING, CRUSHING &
PARCHING OF GRAINV.16 FACILITIES FOR BAKING AND BREWING
V.17 FACILITIES FOR RAISING OF POULTRY & LIVESTOCK
V.18 SANITARY FACILITIES
V
THE GUEST & the SERVICE BUILDINGS
Tradition & Change:
by Carolyn Marino Malone & Walter Horn
INTRODUCTION
VI.1 REBUILDING of the MONASTERY of ST. GALL BY
ABBOT GOZBERT AND HIS SUCCESSORS
FROM A.D. 830 ONWARDVI.2 THE MONASTERY OF CLUNY, BUILT by ABBOT
ODILO, A.D. 994-1048VI.3 LAYOUT OF THE BENEDICTINE MONASTERY;
LATE 11th TO THE 13th CENTURYVI.4 LAYOUT OF THE CISTERCIAN MONASTERY;
THE 12th AND 13th CENTURIESVI.5 CONCLUSION
VI.6 STATUS OF EXCAVATIONS: an Interim Report by
Architect H. R. Sennhauser
VI
THE PLAN OF ST. GALL & ITS EFFECT
ON LATER MONASTIC PLANNING
VOLUME III
CONTENTS: VOLUME III
SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK
ILLUSTRATIONS: VOLUMES I, II, III
- by Walter Horn, with an introduction
1. PLAN FOR INDENTIFICATION OF BUILDINGS
2. INDEX TO IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS ON PLAN
3. THE CATALOGUE OF TITLES
APPENDIX I
A CATALOGUE OF THE EXPLANATORY
TITLES OF THE PLAN OF ST. GALL
- A Translation by Charles W. Jones
A
THE DIRECTIVES, OR BRIEFS, of ADALHARD OF CORBIEB
RUBRICS OF THE ABBOT, DOM ADALHARD
WITH RESPECT TO INSTRUCTION IN CONGREGATIONC
FRAGMENTS OF CHAPTERSD
ADDENDUM
APPENDIX II
THE CUSTOMS OF CORBIE
CONSUETUDINES CORBEIENSES
- by A. Hunter Dupree
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
INDEX TO VOLUMES I, II, III
CORRIGENDA, ERRATA
COLOPHON
APPENDIX III
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLAN
OF ST. GALL
TO THE HISTORY OF MEASUREMENT
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