The Plan of St. Gall a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery |
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DISTINGUISHED TEACHERS
In the ninth and tenth centuries in the monastery of St.
Gall, these schools produced some of the greatest teachers
of the period, the lives and works of whom Ekkehart IV
describes in his Casus sancti Galli with as much detail and
color as those of the greatest abbots.[356]
From Ekkehart's
account we also learn that the Outer School of the monastery
of St. Gall lay to the north of the Church, at almost
the same location it occupies on the Plan of St. Gall; for
in his description of the fire of 937 Ekkehart relates how the
dry shingles of the burning roof of the school were blown
by the north wind onto the church tower and ignited its
roof.[357]
PLAN OF ST. GALL. OUTER SCHOOL. LONGITUDINAL SECTION, NORTH ELEVATION
408.B
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408.D PLAN OF ST. GALL. OUTER SCHOOL. SOUTH ELEVATION
The Outer School could have been built entirely in timber (as was traditional for this type of building) or—because of the high social standing
of many of its occupants, its proximity to the Abbot's House, as well as its need for ample lighting—in the mixed technique which we propose
for the House for Distinguished Guests (figs. 397-399). Masonry would have had the additional advantage of permitting fenestration in the
outer walls of the building.
Adding to this 24-student potential capacity the 12 oblates and novices trained in the Inner School, the 36-student capacity provided for by
facilities on the Plan of St. Gall proves far fewer than the total of 100 students that was Angilbert's pride at St. Riquier ("centum pueros in
hoc sancto loco in scolam congregare studuimus"; Angilberti Abbatis de ecclesia Centulensi Libellus, G. Waitz, ed., Mon.
Germ. hist., Scriptores, XV:1, Hannover 1887, 173-79).
See the chapters on Iso, Marcellus, Radpert, Notker, Tutilo, and the
various Ekkehart's in Ekkeharti (IV.) Casus sancti Galli, ed. Meyer von
Knonau, 1877. The accounts are scattered, but can be easily identified
through the index of persons in Helbling's translation of 1958. Cf. Bruckner,
1938, 28-29.
On the unbroken monastic tradition, master to disciple, from the sixth
to the twelfth century, see Charles W. Jones, in Bedae Opera Didascalia,
ed. cit., 7ff: "Theodore, trained among the Greeks, and his companion
Hadrian, trained in Africa, were led to England by Benedict Biscop, who
was trained at Honoratus' and Cassian's Lerins. Benedict founded Bede's
abbey and trained Ceolfrid, who trained Bede. The subsequent chain,
through Egbert, Albert, Alcuin, Raban, Lupus, Heiric Remigius, leads
to Gerbert, Fulbert, and Berengar."
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