Capitolo 48
you administer such society it asked for the most efficient management. A
abbot on this staircase was a very great man, indeed that you/he/she enjoyed a
establishment of his really, closes from, with official in anybody small
number; for the monks alone it numbered sixty, and these were not also
enough for the regular services of church to seasons of pilgrimage. The
Abbot was forced for entertaining results and hundred guests, and
also, these of the tallest importance, with the great successions. Each
ounce of food must have brought from the continent, or it fished from the
sea. All the tenants and their farms, their leases and contributions,
you/he/she must have looked later. Any secular prince had a more serious assignment of
administration, and nobody did so well it. Tenants always preferred a
abbot or bishop for landlord. The abbey was the tallest
the administrative creation of the Middle Ages, and when one has done
the pilgrimage of one to Rentals, is probable that one devotes well another summer
to visiting what has gone away of Clairvaux, Citeaux, Cluny and the other
famous convents, with Viollet-she-Duc to drive, in order to
you satisfy the mind of one if, on the whole one, such life cannot have,
it had the activity as the idleness.
This is a matter of economies, to be established with the custodians of
you lodge more modern, but the art had to be all right the conditions, and when
Abbot Jordan decided to plaster this enormous structure against the side
of the Mountain, the architect had, a relatively the simple assignment to handle.
The difficulties of engineering were very serious alone; The
plain architectural enough it was simple. As the abbot placed his
requisite in front of the architect, he seems to have started to mend
the staircase for a refectory able to make to sit two hundred guests to
table. Probably any kings in Europe it fed more people to table his that
this. According to the plan of M. Corroyer, the length of the new one
refectory is one hundred and twenty-three feet (37.5 meters). A line
of columns down the centre divides him/it in the two corridors, while measuring