Capitolo 18
under of the choir.
There, according to M. Corroyer, in an angle among great
constructions of the twelfth century and the enormous Merveille of the
thirteenth, the old refectory of the eleventh one was left as a passage
from a group of buildings to the other. Under it is the kitchen of
Hildebert. Above, on the level of the church, it was the dormitory.
These eleventh-century that abbatial buildings have faced north and west, and
it is next to the present church square, opposed the last arc of the vase.
The lowest levels of the plan of Hildebert served as you support or
buttresses in the church above of, and it has to be therefore more old man that the
vase; probably more old man of the triumphal benches of 1058.
Hildebert planned them in 1020, and it died after having brought his/her plans
out till now that they could be completed by Abbot the de of Ralph Beaumont,
who was selected by Duke William in 1048, "more for his especially
tall birth that for his/her worths." De of Ralph that Beaumont is dead in 1060, and
you/he/she had succeeded from Abbot Ranulph a special favourite of Duchess,
Matilda, and it held in tall respect from Duke William. The list of names
show that how much social importance has been attributed to the place. The
The duties of abbot included that of fun on a great staircase. The
Mountain it was one of the most famous shrines in northern Europe. We am
free to take for it granted that all the great people of Normandy slept
to the Mountain and, imagining that M. Corroyer was corrected, that they dined
in this room, among 1050 when the building is due to be in use,
down to 1122 when the abbatial and new quarters were built.
As far the tightened monastic rules social habits are a matter for
antiquarian to establish if theirs are able, and as far those rules they were
observed in the case of great secular principles; but the eleventh
century was not very severe, and the rule of the Benedictines was
always mild, up to that the Cistercians and Saint Bernard stiffened his
you discipline toward 1120. Also then the Church showed strong inclinations