Architectural Geographies

Question 1

Economic and Social contributions: Cathedrals

Answer 1

Town Formation

Economic Transition

Heresy

Economy

New Forms of Music

Question 2

Heresy

Answer 2

Incorrect Belief. (opposite of orthodoxy)

Question 3

Usury

Answer 3

Interest. (Actually used to be a sin: when you loan someone money, you could ask for interest.)

Question 4

King Law

Answer 4

Only businesses run by jewish people could be bankers. They offloaded the sin of usury onto the jewish.

Question 5

Design of cathedrals to make you feel:

Answer 5

• like the designers were of God.
• That you are small
• Feelings of opulence

Question 6

Value of cathedrals of religious:

Answer 6

The architecture brought validity to the people who built them and their ideas. The idea was that only people empowered by God could design and build something like that.

Cathedrals are physical representations of orthodoxy.

Question 7

Cathedrals are a physical representation of

Answer 7

orthodoxy

Question 8

Cathedrals as an economic activity

Answer 8

• People made pilgrimages to these locations (still to this day)
• People were drawn to reliquaries in these cathedrals

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Question 9

Reliquary

Answer 9

a container in which you put a relic in.

Question 10

The cathedral can be read as if

Answer 10

it were a text. It’s features tell us a story.

Question 11

Light in cathedrals

Answer 11

Architecture allowed light to flood in

Symbolic of God (god is light).

Symbolic of Heaven streaming into the cathedral

Light is immaterial

“In a cathedral, the living can get a glimpse of heaven”

Question 12

Geometric Uniformity in cathedrals

Answer 12

(often the shape of the cross)

• nature of mathetics and geometrics and the belief that anything geometric would stand

Question 13

Features of cathedrals

Answer 13

Light

Geometric Uniformity

Interior Focused

Large

Question 14

Interior focus in cathedral design

Answer 14

Outsides were often bland

Symbolic that the inside of a person is more important than the outside

Idea that outdoors = profane, not sacred

Question 15

Cathedrals were large because…

Answer 15

they needed to ‘contain god’

• seen as literally the house of god
• today this is metaphorical

Question 16

Music in cathedrals

Answer 16

The architecture of cathedral interiors birth entirely new forms of music.

Question 17

Presbytery

Answer 17

• more sacred ground
• women were not allowed to enter here
• this is where the choir sits.

Question 18

Windows in cathedrals…

Answer 18

often depicted stories from the bible to those who could not read.

Question 19

Gargoyls on cathedrals

Answer 19

were drainage systems to move water away from the building.

imagery was used to stimulate memory.

Question 20

Relic

Answer 20

The actual body parts of people who have been beatified.

Question 21

In the 1900’s, there was ___ cathedral for every ___

Answer 21

In the 1900’s, there was a cathedral for every 200 people

Question 22

Saint Denis (paris) took

Answer 22

250-300 years to be built.

Question 23

Fasted built cathedral

Answer 23

Gastonbury Abby - built in 17 years.

Question 24

Laborers:

Answer 24

Not full time, seasonal

Huge investment of time, money and physical resources.

Question 25

Biblical notion of cathedrals

Answer 25

There was no biblical notion of a need to build cathedrals in the bible.

Question 26

Kings role before cathedrals became popular

Answer 26

1. Ruler

2. Spiritual Figureheads