medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: John Briggs
>
>> Christopher Crockett has successfully negotiated that one - as he said, a
>> triforium is a blind (i.e. not piercing the nave wall) arcaded wall
>> passage,
>
> mmm... i don't think i said that it was "blind" --hope i didn't, in
> any event, as that would be evidence of yet another Senior Moment.
Alright, "semi-blind" :-) I just meant not piercing the exterior of the
wall (as opposed to the interior). You did use the word "blind", albeit not
as loosely as I did.
<snip>
>> At Amiens, the triforium has grown, and is almost pretending to be a
>> gallery, as it does at Bourges,
>
> loosing me a bit here --"grown" *taller*, i suppose you mean.
"Losing". Not just taller, more prominent, I suppose. The point is that
Amiens has two arches per bay (subdivided by tracery), at Bourges it is one
outer arch per bay, just as a gallery would have - rather that a row of
arcading.
John Briggs
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