Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Note on the Second Edition
- Note on the Third Edition
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chapter I THE CLOISTER
- Chapter II THE EASTERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter III THE SOUTHERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter IV THE WESTERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter V THE ABBOT'S HOUSE
- Chapter VI THE INFIRMARY
- Chapter VII OUTBUILDINGS
- Chapter VIII THE CHURCH
- Chapter IX THE ORDERS
- Chapter X THE DISSOLUTION
- Plans
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Note on the Second Edition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Note on the Second Edition
- Note on the Third Edition
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chapter I THE CLOISTER
- Chapter II THE EASTERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter III THE SOUTHERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter IV THE WESTERN CLAUSTRAL BUILDINGS
- Chapter V THE ABBOT'S HOUSE
- Chapter VI THE INFIRMARY
- Chapter VII OUTBUILDINGS
- Chapter VIII THE CHURCH
- Chapter IX THE ORDERS
- Chapter X THE DISSOLUTION
- Plans
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
I am grateful for the various suggestions by reviewers: slight corrections have been made accordingly. Mr G. G. Coulton believes that the famous plan found at St Gall was a fancy drawing of an ideal monastery, which was never carried out at St Gall or elsewhere. This seems to me very possible, but there is good evidence that the actual plan dates from the early part of the ninth century.
Mr Coulton is no doubt right in saying that The Kites of Durham should not be quoted without a caution, for it is an ex parte statement written perhaps half a century after the monastery was dissolved. Surely, however, it will always be a primary authority for the disposition and use of the buildings, and it is for this purpose almost entirely that I have quoted it.
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- The Home of the MonkAn Account of English Monastic Life and Buildings in the Middle Ages, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1934