Humanities 1214--The Medieval World
Dr. D. Pryds

Study Guide to The White Garment of Churches
 
 

Terms and Names (BOLD terms may appear on the exam):  ART AND ARCHITECTURE: Romanesque  Norman Style Gothic  manuscript illumination  controposto pose  MONASTIC AND  MENDICANT ORDERS: Benedictine Cluniac  Cistercian  Franciscan Dominican   CHURCHES: Church of Mary Magdalene at Vezelay  Autun Cathedral  Santiago de Compostela  Canterbury Cathedral  Chartres Cathedral      West Front     North/South Transepts  St. Denis  Beauvais  Wells Cathedral  Laon Cathedral  Notre Dame (Paris)  Ste. Capelle (Paris)

RELIGIOUS PRACTICE:  pilgrimage relics  PARTS OF A CHURCH:  nave ambulatory apse  transept crossing  choir  high altar chapels/radiating chapels  side aisles  galleries  clerestory windows  flying buttress  capitals (of columns)  pointed arch  tympanum  towers vaults      barrel vaults      rib vaults  PEOPLE:  Gislebertus  Abbott Suger  Bernard of Clairvaux

 

STUDY QUESTIONS:

1. Be able to explain the origin of the terms "Romanesque" and "Gothic." What are the stylistic differences between the two?

2. When was the Romanesque Period in architecture? What were important factors leading to the development of Romanesque architecture?

3. When was the Gothic period in architecture? Where did Gothic emerge? What is the importance of light in Gothic Architecture and how was this light achieved?

4. What is the importance of pilgrimage to medieval society? What is the importance of relics in medieval society? Related to this, what is the importance of saints to medieval art and society in general?

5. How were funds raised to build churches and cathedrals?

6. What are some of the societal changes of the period 1100-1300

7. What geographic areas of Europe are NOT mentioned in the video? What does this say about the geographic limits of Gothic architecture?