chapterhouse

How To Use chapterhouse In A Sentence

• 'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In 1363, for example, Bindo Benini donated to the monastery a relatively modest sum of 120 florins in order to help defray construction and decoration costs of a burial chapel in the chapterhouse.
• Neither at St. Katharinenthal nor at Unterlinden do we know the exact location of such a room, but generally these activities took place in the west range of the cloister, furthest from the choir and chapterhouse. 108 The Sister-Books make reference to the werkhaus, werkhuss, or werkgaden. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
• 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
• The abbey ruin became a source of ready-worked building stone; only the chapterhouse survived. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• 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