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The Plan of St. Gall

a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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SYNOPSIS
OF THE WORK

A skeletal list of its main divisions
views the work at a glance, on facing pages

    VOLUME I

    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS by Walter Horn

    • FOREWORD by Wolfgang Braunfels

    • CONTENTS: VOLUME I

    • SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK

    • ABBREVIATIONS

    • PREFACE by Walter Horn

      I
      PREVIOUS LITERATURE, ORIGIN,
      PURPOSE AND SPECIAL PROBLEMS

    • 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 PLAN

    • I.6 ORIGINAL OR COPY?

    • I.6 THE PLAN & its RELATION to the MONASTIC REFORM
      MOVEMENT

    • I.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 PLAN

    • I.15 THE PROBLEM OF SCALE & FUNCTION

    • I.16 THE PLAN & THE ROMAN CASTRUM

    • I.17 NUMERI SACRI 3 4 7 10 12 40

      II
      THE MONASTERY CHURCH

    • II.1 DESCRIPTION

    • II.2 RECONSTRUCTION

    • II.3 HISTORICAL EVALUATION

      III
      THE CLOISTERS & THE ABBOT'S HOUSE

    • III.1 THE CLOISTER OF THE MONKS

    • III.2 NOVITIATE AND INFIRMARY

    • III.3 THE ABBOT'S HOUSE

      IV
      THE MONASTIC POLITY

    • 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


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    VOLUME II

    • CONTENTS: VOLUME II

    • SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK

      V
      THE GUEST & the SERVICE BUILDINGS

    • INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME II

    • V.1 PREVIOUS INTERPRETATIONS

    • V.2 PREHISTORIC, PROTOHISTORIC & EARLY MEDIEVAL
      PROTOTYPES OF GUEST & SERVICE BUILDINGS
      OF THE PLAN OF ST. GALL

    • V.3 THE ST. GALL HOUSE:
      ITS TYPOLOGICAL IDENTIFICATION

    • V.4 CRITERIA OF RECONSTRUCTION I

    • V.5 SURVIVING MEDIEVAL HOUSES OF THE
      TYPE OF ST. GALL

    • V.6 CRITERIA OF RECONSTRUCTION II

    • V.7 DEVICES FOR HEATING, LIGHTING, VENTILATION,
      BAKING AND COOKING

    • V.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 GARDEN

    • V.13 THE CEMETERY AND ORCHARD

    • V.14 FACILITIES FOR STORAGE AND THRESHING OF GRAIN

    • V.15 FACILITIES FOR GRINDING, CRUSHING &
      PARCHING OF GRAIN

    • V.16 FACILITIES FOR BAKING AND BREWING

    • V.17 FACILITIES FOR RAISING OF POULTRY & LIVESTOCK

    • V.18 SANITARY FACILITIES

      VI
      THE PLAN OF ST. GALL & ITS EFFECT
      ON LATER MONASTIC PLANNING

    • 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 ONWARD

    • VI.2 THE MONASTERY OF CLUNY, BUILT by ABBOT
      ODILO, A.D. 994-1048

    • VI.3 LAYOUT OF THE BENEDICTINE MONASTERY:
      LATE 11th TO THE 13th CENTURY

    • VI.4 LAYOUT OF THE CISTERCIAN MONASTERY:
      THE 12th AND 13th CENTURIES

    • VI.5 CONCLUSION

    • VI.6 STATUS OF EXCAVATIONS: an Interim Report by
      Architect H. R. Sennhauser

    VOLUME III

    • CONTENTS: VOLUME III

    • SYNOPSIS OF THE WORK

    • ILLUSTRATIONS: VOLUMES I, II, III

    APPENDIX I
    A CATALOGUE OF THE EXPLANATORY
    TITLES OF THE PLAN OF ST. GALL
    by Walter Horn, with an introduction

  • 1. PLAN FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BUILDINGS

  • 2. INDEX TO IDENTIFICATION NUMBERS ON PLAN

  • 3. THE CATALOGUE OF TITLES

    APPENDIX II
    THE CUSTOMS OF CORBIE
    CONSUETUDINES CORBEIENSES
    A Translation by Charles W. Jones

  • A

    THE DIRECTIVES, OR BRIEFS, of ADALHARD OF CORBIE

  • B

    RUBRICS OF THE ABBOT, DOM ADALHARD

    WITH RESPECT TO INSTRUCTION IN CONGREGATION

  • C

    FRAGMENTS OF CHAPTERS

  • D

    ADDENDUM

    APPENDIX III
    THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PLAN
    OF ST. GALL
    TO THE HISTORY OF MEASUREMENT
    by A. Hunter Dupree

  • GLOSSARY

  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

  • INDEX TO VOLUMES I, II, III

  • CORRIGENDA, ERRATA

  • COLOPHON