Hart 104.  Case Studies in Ancient and Medieval Architecture

Fall Semester 2004

 

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Lecture 7.  The Saint Gall Plan

                 Design of the Monastic City

 

Benedict of Nursia c. 480-553

The Rule or the Rule of Benedict

Monte Casino, Italy, 529

Synods of Aachen (Inden), 816-817

Louis the Pious

Bishop Haito of Basil, Abbot of Richenau

Abbot Gozbert of St. Gall

 

Cenobites

Anchorites

Sarabaitess

Gyrovagues

 

Timgad, North Africa, c. 100 A.D.

Skellig Michael, Ireland, 6th-9th century

 

Offices:  (matins, laudes, prime, terce, sext, nones, verspers, compline)

 

square schematism

module

claustrum

novitiate (novices, oblates, pulsantes)

double ender

forechoir

 

Isidore of Seville (dispositio, constructio, venustas)

           

 

 

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Lecture 8.  The Church of Saint-Gall

    Architecture and the Rule of Benedict

    Relics and Procession

 

St. Riquier, Centula, 790-799

            Angelbert's, Libellus

            Hariulf,'s drawing, 10th centurty

capsa maior

capsa minore

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Team 3 Discussion.  What happens in a cloister?

           Architecture and Memory

 

locational memory

            ekphrasis

            orthopraxis

            meditation machine

            mnemonics