Week 7: Cathedrals and church parishes

Rural/parish churches

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 398-408 and 412-417; Carver and Klapste 468-478
  
• for an example of Eigenkirche, see the 1960-1963 excavations and a reconstruction of the eighth-century church underneath St. Dionysius in Esslingen
• for an example of parish church, see the church excavated in the medieval deserted village of Vöhingen (Germany)
• see the Church of the Madeleine in Geneva, the church in Brenz, and the Cathedral in Speyer (with the crypt with royal tombs)
• for an example of burials within the church, see the fifth-century graves underneath the main nave of the Saint Germain Church in Auxerre


Cathedrals and "colonial" churches . Architecture and art history.


• Carver and Klapste 442-457
• see pictures of the Uppsala Cathedral
• visit also the Cathedral of Canterbury
• see also images of St. Philibert in Tournus (with plan; Burgundy, France), St. Sernin in Toulouse (with plan; Provence, France), the Cathedral of Speyer (with a view of the nave; Germany), Sant'Ambrogio in Milan (with a view of the nave; Italy), St. Etienne in Caen (Normandy, France), the Durham Cathedral (England), the Pisa cathedral (Italy), San Miniato al Monte in Florence (Italy), the lintel at St. Genis-des-Fontaines (Pyrenees Orientales, France), the tympana at Moissac, Autun, and Vezelay (France), the plan of the abbey church at St. Denis (France), the Laon cathedral (with plan and a view of the interior; France), Notre Dame of Paris (with rose window, France), the Chartres cathedral (with an example of flying buttress; France), the Bourges cathedral (France), and the Amiens cathedral (France), Sainte Chapelle in Paris (with a view of the interior; France); the statues of Count Ekkehard and Countess Uta of Ballenstedt in the Cathedral of Naumburg (ca. 1245-1260); a buttress design by Villard de Honnecourt (ca. 1220)