Is the covering system of the highest nave.
What is a heavy barrel vault?
Was the founder of this famous monastery.
Who is Saint-Bernard?
Was the rule under which the monks were living...
What was the rule of that of Saint Benedict of Nursia?
**who had, in the 6th century, advocated a life divided between prayer, rest, study, and work.
Are the main materials utilized in the façade.
What are brick and stone?
Is the most outstanding feature of this church.
What is the Portal of Saint-Pierre?
What is the height of the central nave?
It is the transformation of monasteries from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.
What is secularization? (secularized monasteries)?
As a result, the abbey answered directly to the pope and did not have to obey any other dictates, or taxation, from local lords.
What was the independence granted by William the Pious?
_____________indicate that such towers were part of the original plan of the church.
What are the massive buttresses?
Is the area decorated with ten rosettes that are bound together by a carved rope and have a repeated floral pattern at both the upper and lower spaces between each rosette.
What is a lintel?
There linear elements defining planes in the interior or exterior.
It was believed that they would distract the prayers.
What are the decorations?
What is a double transept?
Is what stands out the most due to the presence of 9 radiating chapels.
What is the east end or east apse?
Along with the subject of the Last Judgment, this scene is very frequent in the tympanum decoration.
What is Christ in Majesty? **Maiestas Domini
It refers to the upper portion of the wall pierced by windows.
What is the clerestory?
Is an area for reflection, carried out in a stark design.
What is the cloister?
Were the main problems of the Cluniac order and provoked the Cistercian schism.
What is corruption and corruption and excess (too much interest in things of the material world)?
**A far cry from its devout beginnings!
Are the elements of the church that are most visible around the city of Toulouse.
What are the tower bell and its spire?
Is the reason why Pilgrims turned to European sites more and more.
What are the difficulties encountered to travel to the Holy Land? (Crusades, Holy War).
The most sacred area of the church; in this case, it terminates in three semi-circular apses.
What is the east-end of this church?
Dedicating life to prayer, hard labor, self-sufficiency and living a humble existance.
What are the monastic ideals of Saint-Bernard?
Was characteristic of the laying out of the Pilgrimage Churches of the region.
What is a latin cross floorplan with several aisles both next to the nave and in the transept?
Are the symbols of the four gospel writers that surround the mandorla where Jesus raises his right hand in a gesture of blessing.
What are the lion, the bull, the eagle and the angel (the man)?
Is depicted on the east side of the trumeau at Saint-Pierre.
Who is the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah?