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Castles And Cathedrals Flashcards

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Iconostasis

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A screen separating the choir from the congregation so that only their voices would be heard

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Narhtex

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The first part of the cathedral….entryhall

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Aedificium

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Latin for library

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Crossing

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Where everything comes together in the center of the church

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Trancepts

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Where the cross shape of the church intersects

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West portals

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Led to Narthex

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Nave

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Body of the church where the congregation gathered

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Buttresses

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Gothic props that held up the walls up so that they could soar higher

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Aisle

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Long row where the congregation could stand in the church

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Gargoyle

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An animal that sat outside of the church signifying that no evil resided inside the church; it had to stay outside

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Facade

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The outside of the cathedral

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Close

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Beautiful grounds…gardens

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Chancel

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Part of church near alter reserved for the choir or clergy

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Apse

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Area where the alter was kept facing the east

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Ambulatory

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Place in the church where the pope kept all his supplies for the sacraments

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Timpanium

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Entryway

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Ladies chapel

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Place where pope was buried

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Moat

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Ditch around a castle filed with water to keep out intruders

Sometimes filled with electric eels or alligators

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Keep

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Center household/tower in the middle of the castle

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20
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Romanesque cathedrals

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Aix la Chapelle
Stephansdonplatz
Westminster

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Gothic cathedrals

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St. Denis
Notre Dame
Chatres & Bourges
Rheims
Amiens
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Rayonnant cathedrals

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Beauvais
Sainte-Chapelle
Toledo & Ely

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Enemies

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Muslim Occupation
Persian suzerainty
Byzantine imperialism
Brigands & highwaymen

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Routes

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Caravaneers
Navigation & Trade Leagues
Lone Explorers & wanderers

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Holy sites

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Local customs & taxes
Historic decrepitude
Hostile occupied territories

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Inducements to pilgrimage

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Rootedness
Theology
Adventure

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Stephansdomplatz

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977

Began to move mo towards gothic architecture

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Westminster

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1056

Represented the Norman style

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Notre Dame

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1163
Vast internal expanses
Used flying buttresses

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Chatres & Bourges

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Incorporated stained glass
Used light and shadow to accentuate layering
Triforium structure

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Rheims

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1211

Used bar tracery

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Ameins

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1220

Highest, longest, most advanced development of the gothic style

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Beauvais

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1220
Rose windows
Diaphanous walls

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Toledo & Ely

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(Toledo is the spanish impression)

Ely- sheer walls in Ladies’ chapel

35
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Tied to calling

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People lived according to their calling

Family life was built around each persons calling

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Covenant Community

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Communities had unique cuisines and costumes…
Tied to a covenant of life together
Made great sense of pride

37
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Penance and holiness

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People lived quiet lives

They reinforced rootedness in faith

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Healing and wholeness

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People hungered for healing and wholeness
They believed that God would change the world
Looked at the positives
Lived progressively

39
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Inspiration and aspiration

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People lived lives of genuine chivalry

Chivalry inspired people to live lives of valor, truth, and beauty

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Wander lust

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People wanted to accomplish great things
They loved imagination and adventure
People longed to explore
WL= restlessness, people wanted to see things

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Tales of the Troubadours

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Troubadours told of magnificent places, making the villagers jealous, and want to travel

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Trade, Exploration, and war

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Trade and exploration made opportunities to grow
People began to be mobile
Travel became easier

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Muslim occupation

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Muslims were a great danger to pilgriming Christians

Christians who were brave enough to venture into Muslim territory were almost always captured or killed

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Persian Suzerainty

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Colonial possessions were spread over much of eastern Mediterranean

45
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Byzantine Imperialism

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Much pressure pushing the Byzantine between Christian and Muslim
Byzantines were very suspicious of people from the West

46
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Brigands and Highwaymen

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The pirates and highwaymen were very dangerous even beforee the muslims and byzantines
New trade routes opened, making pirates and highwaymen more common

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Navigation and trade leagues

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Trade leagues were new innovations in navigation

They made it easier to cross oceans

48
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Caravaneers

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Caravaneers brought back stories and art that made people want to travel
Venice and Geneva became launching pads
Explorers insighted more imagination
1000s of children left their families to go explore

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Local customs and taxes

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Heaps of stores lay untaken care of

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Hostile occupied territories

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There was no way to know who, what, where was trustworthy

People made their way through life without any outside help

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