Chapter 17 Key Vocabulary
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- Romanesque
- means "Romanlike." first applied in the early 19th century to describe European architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries
- leige lord
- landholding person who might grant tenure of a portion of his land to vassals
- vassals
- swore allegiance to their liege and rendered him military service in return for land and protection
- charters
- enumerated the communities' rights, privilages, immunities, and exemptions beyond the feudal obligations they owed the lords
- tribune
- upper gallery over the aisle opening onto the nave
- radiating chapels
- semicircular openings off of the ambulatory
- transverse arches
- in the nave, cylindrical piers support barrel vaults that run perpendicular to the nave's axis, one in each bay, separated by these
- springing
- the lowest stone of an arch
- compound piers
- piers with columns or pilasters attached to their rectangular core
- campanile
- bell tower
- ribs
- supporting arches
- sexpartite vault
- six sections of a large square vault compartment divided by ribs
- incrustation
- wall decorations consisting of bright panels of different colors
- diaphragm arches
- divide nave into equal compartments
- cloister
- enclosed space
- vita comtemplative
- the medieval church expressed the seclusion of the spiritual life
- historiated
- ornamented with figures
- tympanum
- the prominent semicircular lunette above the doorway proper
- voussiors
- wedge-shaped blocks that form the archivolts of the arch framing the tympanum
- lintel
- horizontal beam above the doorway
- trumeau
- center post supporting the lintel in the middle doorway
- jambs
- tside posts of the doorway
- hall chuch
- a church where the aisles are approximately the same height as the nave