The Abbey of St Gall is an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural centres in Europe.

Today it is considered that the plan does not show the layout or plan of a specific Carolingian monastery, and that the monastic complex represented was not intended to be built in Saint Gall or ...

About a minute’s walk from the cathedral is the Abbey of Saint Gall, a Carolingian-era monastery founded in 719 by Saint Othmar where Saint Gall built his hermitage. In 1983, Unesco included the ...

Graphic Arts holds a small collection of sample bindings and sewing structures, which includes this facsimile of a Carolingian carved ivory book ... out that the most interesting items at the St Gall ...

The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, one of the most important in Europe. Its library is one of the ...

Religious activities have continued uninterrupted until the present day, with the abbey becoming a priory in 1810. Today, the convent ensemble comprises the Carolingian conventual church and the Saint ...

Lucie Skeaping explores the Abbey of St Gall, its role in the development of medieval chant, and how one of the Abbey's most famous sons - a young monk named "Notker the Stammerer" - came to write ...