St. Gall Virtual Reality Project

UCLA College of Letters and Science, Social Sciences Division, and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Primary contact

Patrick Geary
Professor
History
(310) 825-4389
geary@ucla.edu

Project URL

www.stgallplan.org

Additional project researchers

Priv. Dozent Dr. Barbara Schedl, CMRS VR Coordinator

Project description

We are creating a large-scale virtual reality model of the so-called St. Gall plan, the most detailed and comprehensive architectural program to survive from the Middle Ages. Drawn and annotated on a single large sheet of parchment in the early ninth century, the St. Gall parchment includes the ground plans of some forty structures as well as gardens, fences, walls, and a road. In addition to a variety of digital representations of the plan itself, the collection will include detailed information on each element of the plan, its contemporary context drawn from contemporary texts and surviving material objects, and its impact on early medieval monastic architecture and culture. The resulting collection, as made available via this site, will have the breadth and depth of information that will enable substantive new scholarship.

This project is fully supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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