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| 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 |
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Created by:
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on 2009-11-04