From a Cloister ...... Elizabeth Gibson
- Author: Elizabeth Gibson
- Published Date: 31 Jan 2012
- Publisher: Nabu Press
- Original Languages: English
- Format: Paperback::68 pages
- ISBN10: 1274050545
- Publication City/Country: Charleston SC, United States
- File size: 50 Mb
- Dimension: 189x 246x 4mm::141g Download: From a Cloister ......
In order to provide them with access to the outdoors while protecting them from contact with the secular world, the cloister became a common element of convents and monasteries. When used as a verb, cloister generally loses its religious connotation and means "to seclude" or "isolate. In developed medieval practice, cloisters usually followed either a Benedictine or a Cistercian arrangement. In the Benedictine form, the church was located on one side of the cloister, with the refectory occupying the opposite side, so that the worshipers might be removed from kitchen noises and smells. noun. 1A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side. 'In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied members of the community open from the cloister walk.'
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