medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> no need for "flyers" when you've got no side aisles for them to "fly" over and
> internal/external buttresses of that enormous thickness.
>
> these conditions also seem to prevail at the Nu"rnberger example you quoted
> earlier
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Nuernberg-sebald-ostchor-v-so.jpg
>
yes, and at the other examples - and many more - as well.
> which seems to be, basically, an adaptation of the French Ste Chapelle(s)
> ("Court Style") design of the mid-13th c.
with the difference that the Ste Chapelle has no aisles. But
chapel-style choirs really were very much a la mode in Germany in the
14th/15th century.
Best, h.w.
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