medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
ps That's fuori le Mura.
Tom Izbicki
Tom Izbicki wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Are any of these churches fusions of two preexisting buildings? S.
> Lorenzo fuori di Mura in Rome is a fusion. It shanks at the join.,
> Tom Izbicki
>
> John Briggs wrote:
>> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
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>> George R. Hoelzeman wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's something I was asked this past week to which I
>>> have no answer. Actually, I've never even heard it
>>> before.
>>>
>>> Someone mentioned that the choir/apses of most French
>>> Romanesque churches are about 30 degrees off axis (or was
>>> it 3 degrees?). They were wondering
>>> why and mentioned they'd heard the Romantic notion that
>>> it had to do with the angle of Christ's head as popularly
>>> depicted in crucifixion scenes.
>>
>> No, that's complete nonsense. It's much more to do with the
>> difficulties of setting out the alignment of foundations accurately
>> when you are constructing the outer walls of a new building around a
>> pre-existing building. The alternative suggestion that choirs were
>> laid out to point to (oriented to) the sunrise on the patronal feast
>> of the church has more merit, but so far little hard evidence.
>>
>> John Briggs
>>
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