Question | Answer |
When was the Edict of Milan passed? | 313ce |
Who passed the Edict of Milan? | Constantine |
Catacomb | underground burial chambers |
basilica plan | floor plan modeled after Roman Basilicas |
When did Theodosius I divide the empire | when he died in 395ce |
In what year did Ravenna (and Roman empire) fall? | 476ce |
Narthex | vestibule |
Transept | perpendicular and transverse aisle between the nave |
Nave | Main aisle if the church |
Apse | place where the altar is |
Clerestory | windows in the upper wall and beneath the timber roof |
Byzantium | The Greek city where New Rome was founded (Constantinople) |
Centralized Plan | A floor plan centered around a dome |
Pendentives | helped open up the area under and support the domes |
Mosaic | an image made of little titles called tessere |
Icon | an image considered to be holy |
medeus aevum | “middle age” |
cloisonnés | Early Medievil metalwork |
interlace | a form of adornment called knotwork |
manuscript illumination | The decoration of holy manuscripts |
Hiberno-Saxon | art from British Monasteries |
Monasticism | The organization of and religious practice of living in monasteries |
Feudalism | Medieval Government where people pledging support to more powerful people |
Pilgrimage | A religious Journey to all the important churches to see their relics |
cult of saints and relics | the collecting of and worshiping of holy objects |
reliquary | container where the holy relic was kept |
barrel vaulting | continuous semi circular cut stone vaults |
Compound Piers | piers with columns or pilasters attached to the rectangle cores |
Ambulatory | like a hallway around the apse |
radiating chapels | chapels built off the apse |
Tympanum | the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance bounded by a lintel and arch |
ribbed groin vault (“rib vault”) | A groin vault with rib-like supports |
pointed arch | an arch with a point on top |
flying buttress | An arch used to support the walls of the church inside or outside |
jamb statue | are figures carved on the jambs of a doorway or window |
Frederick II | Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicil |
panel painting | the painting of panels for the altar or walls of a church |