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The isolation of the chapterhouse was a good thing for the Maker of Narrow Houses, both the Mysteress and Caspian agreed, as the world surely was still confusing to him, even a year after the attack that had taken his memory away.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

Her appeal was a simple one: it had been a year, almost, since she had saved him on the road and, since then, he had not strayed far from the chapterhouse and its workshops.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009

The arch is topped by a large tracery rose and backed by a trough on the interior side (within the cloister walk) that probably once marked the entrance to the chapterhouse.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

No place — the cloister arcade, chapterhouse, infirmary, dormitories, refectory, kitchen, workrooms, or even the gardens — escaped the notice of Dominican women and their many forms of religious expression.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

At Adelhausen the chapterhouse may have been in the church itself, for the Sister-Book refers twice to "the chapter in the right choir."

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

It was there that they accused Adelheit of Breisach of heresy. 74 The nuns of Töss sometimes flagellated themselves in front of the monastery's chapterhouse. 75

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

In spaces such as the choir, chapterhouse, or refectory, the constitutions 'aim was to control and guide the experience of sound in that environment.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

This nuns 'choir was in existence by the beginning of the fourteenth century, but may have been built along with the rest of the nave and may have been accessible by stairs near the chapterhouse in the west range of the cloister.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

Next were the Gospel readings used at pretiosa (text recited after the reading from the Martyrology in the chapterhouse after the Office of Prime) .121 At the close of the manuscript are the Augustinian Rule and Raymond of Peñafort's version of the Order's constitutions. 122 A comparison between the prototype and the Unterlinden manuscript shows that the necrology is specific to the codex's community, in the first case the men in charge of the

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

We begin with the most significant of these spaces, the church, and then examine the other places within the monastic precinct: the cloister walk, the chapterhouse, the infirmary, the refectory, the kitchen, the dormitory, the workrooms, and the gardens.

Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008