strictly cloistered and contemplative, Carthusian, Charterhouse, prior, vespers,

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cloister

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1. a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.

   "the shadowed cloisters of the convent"piazza

   colonnade

   ambulatory

   stoa

verb

1. seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.

   "the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate"

Carthusians：嘉都西會：1084年聖布魯諾（St. Bruno）創立於法國。規律嚴格，訓練會士克己苦身，獨居斗室，專心祈禱和工作。該會全名為 Order of Carthusians，縮寫為 O. Cart.。 Architecture and Landscaping: Carthusian

Of or belonging to a religious Order of monks founded by St Bruno (c.1030–1101) at Chartreuse in Dauphiné in 1084 or 1086 as a more severe interpretation of Benedictine rule. Each monk, devoted to the spirit of contemplation, had individual living-accommodation, generally grouped around courts or cloisters, communal activities being confined to the religious Offices and Holy Days. The architecture was plain and unadorned, and the Order flourished, especially in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Good examples of Carthusian monastery-buildings are the Certosa, Pavia (1396–1497), the Certosa di Val d'Ema, near Florence (founded 1341), and the Cartuja de Miraflores, Burgos (C15), built to designs by members of the Colonia family. In England, a Carthusian establishment was called Charter House, hence the name of the school founded in London on the site of the Carthusian monastery.

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• W.Papworth (1852)

Columbia Encyclopedia: Charterhouse

[Fr.,=Chartreuse], in London, England, once a Carthusian monastery (founded 1371), later a hospital for old men and then a school for boys, endowed in 1611. The school, which became a large public school, was removed (1872) to Godalming, Surrey. W. M. Thackeray, a pupil at the school, describes it in The Newcomes.

Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Carthusian

Member of a Roman Catholic monastic order founded by St. Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030 – 1101) in 1084 in the Chartreuse valley of southeastern France. Members of the Order of Carthusians pray, study, eat, and sleep alone but gather in church for morning mass, vespers, and the night office. They dine together on Sundays and major holidays and walk together once a week. They wear hair shirts, abstain from eating meat, and consume only bread and water on Fridays and fast days. At the motherhouse, or Grande Chartreuse (today in Voiron, Isère), the monks distill the liqueur that bears the house's name. Carthusian nuns are also strictly cloistered and contemplative. Vespers：晚禱；晚課：日課經中於晚間誦念的經文。參閱 Breviary, Liturgy of the Hours。 office,Breviary Wikipedia article "Carthusian".

prior：上司；會長：指管理數個會院的修會領袖，又分為：(1) conventual prior：獨立隱修院之上司。(2) provincial prior：修會之省會長。(3) general prior：某些修會（如思定會…）的總會長。

prioress：女會長：女修會之上司，包括總會長、省會長、院長。特指本篤、道明等修女會的最高上司。

priory：隱修院：包括男女修會在內。

A Carthusian monastery might best be described as a community of hermits, as paradoxical as that might seem. The monastery is headed by a prior (there are no Carthusian "abbeys"), and is populated by choir monks and laybrothers.