St. Gall in Switzerland and St. Denis in Paris are both Benedictine examples of, for 10 points, what building complexes that house communities of monks?
The only comprehensive architectural history of these institutions is a 1972 book by Wolfgang Braunfels. The only surviving systematic architectural drawing of the Middle Ages depicts an idealized one of these institutions and is dedicated to its leader Gozbert. Art historian Erwin Panofsky explored the influence of scholastic theology on the leader of another of these institutions, who commissioned for it the first truly Gothic building. (*) Churches belonging to these institutions were simplified during the Cistercian reforms. A church attached to one of these institutions is the traditional burial site of the kings of France. St. Gall in Switzerland and St. Denis in Paris are both Benedictine examples of, for 10 points, what building complexes that house communities of monks?
The only comprehensive architectural history of these institutions is a 1972 book by Wolfgang Braunfels.
monasteries [or abbeys]