Reconstitution

First Appearance and Context

The Reconstitution is referenced in liturgy and teaching within the Mynster, including during Provener, when the community contrasts practices “before the Reconstitution” with those that follow inside the concent.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Marks a threshold after the Terrible Events, from which core practices were re-anchored around the great Clock and its rites within the Mynster.
• The revived form includes the performance of the Hylaean Anathem and the centering of observance on mechanisms housed in the Praesidium.
• The Revised Book of Discipline was adopted at this time; it describes eight types of liaison and sanctions two.
• In local histories, the period “after the Reconstitution” is when the first fraas and suurs of the Order of Saunt Edhar took up the work at the river bend that led to the Concent of Saunt Edhar.

Relationships

• Functions as the hinge between the Praxic Age and later practice; accounts often set earlier customs and language “before” it and modern usage “after.”
• Serves as a reference epoch for calendars and dating in technical and liturgical accounts.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Treated as a historical divider and organizing label in instruction and ceremony.
• Reference works use it as a period boundary when dating language and practices (e.g., “late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution”).

Current Status/Location

Active as a standard point of reference in liturgy, instruction, and reference usage. Specific causes, scope, and reforms associated with it have not been detailed in the available material.