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15 Cards in this Set
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Frankish leader who united western Europe which had been w/o strong leadership as a result of the fall of the Roman Empire. Converted the entirety of Western Europe to Christianity. Crowned Roman Emporer by Pope Leo III on Christmas dayin 800 ce
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Charlemagne
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Architectural style that extends in time from the late 8th Cen into the 10th cen. and in space through those countries which formed part of France, Germany, and the Netherlands
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Carolingian
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Elaborated western end of a Carolingian and German Romanesque churches, which consistaed of western transept arms and towers, a low entrance hall, and an upper room open to the nave
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Westwerk
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Architecural style of the High Middle ages in Europe characterized by use of Roman architectrual forms
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Romanesque
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English Romanesque style of the 11th and 12th Cen.
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Norman
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Earliest of the periods of English Gothic arch n the 13th cen.
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Early English
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One of a group of chapels in a gothic church arranged around the curved ambulatory of the chancel or chevet and seeming to radiate out from the choir
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Radiating Chapels
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a semicircular or polygonal aisle enclosed an apse or a straight ended sanctuary; originally used for processional purposes
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Ambulatory
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A semicircular arch
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Roman arch
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a series of arches within a wall framing a recessed flat panel, not an opening; used ornamentally to vary a plain expanse of masonry or to decrease the dead weight of a wall. Often found in Romanesque and Gothic buildings
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Blind Arcade
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a small, relatively ting adn greatly elongated column often used for decoration or to support an arcade in romansque and gothic arch
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Colonnette
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A mass of masonry or brickwork projecting from or built against a wall to give additional strength, usually to counteract the lateral thrust of an arch, roof or vault
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Buttress
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a parapet with alternating indentations or embrasures and raised portions or merlons. also know as a battlement
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crenellation
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a parapet with alternation indentations or embrasures and raised portions or merlons. Also known as crenellation
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battlement
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a low wall, sometimes battlemented or crenellated, placed to protect any spot where there is a sudden drop, for exampleat the edge of a bridge, quay or house-top
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Parapet
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