HANDOUT FOR LECTURE 21: GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE: CISTERCIANS &
CATHEDRALS
PEOPLES
Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (1081 –1151)
St Benedict (c.480–547)
Villard de Honnecourt (12th century)
CONCEPTS
Ex cathedra
Tympanum
a choir (chancel)
pilgrimage
flying buttress
rose window
chevet
reliquary
compound pier
St Benedict's Rule
Cistercian Order
PLACES
Notre Dame Cathedral
Church of St. Michael Hildesheim Germany 1010
St Denis, near Paris (rebuilt 1140 – 1160)
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens (Begun 1220)
Saint-Chapelle (1241 to 1248)
Clairvaux Abbey (founded in 1115)
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4.605 Introduction to the History and Theory of Architecture
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