Development Flashcards
(37 cards)
Anne of Kiev, queen of Henri I said in 11th century
The houses were gloomy, the churches ugly and the customs revolting.
Robert I restored the…
Palais de la Cité and rebuilt the abbeys of St Germain des Prés and St Germain l’Auxerrois.
According to Horne, Abbé Suger was a…
Product and epitome of the twelfth-century renaissance, as well as being a profound influence in the aesthetic development of France and of Paris.
Abbot Suger believed that if the common people could not grasp the Scriptures then…
they could best be taught them through the medium of pictures, or stories carved in stone.
Suger’s approach was a substantial divergence from the fundamental Muslim approach, which allowed…
no representation of the human figure.
Victor Hugo said that in the Middle Ages…
human genius had no important thought which it did not write down in stone.
In 1132, Suger decided to rebuild the ancient romanesque abbey at St. Denis, adding Gothic features such as…
soaring spires, lofty rib vaults and pointed arches.
St Denis and Notre Dame (1163) had to be rebuilt because…
They were too small. On feast days, people were sometimes crushed to death.
Notre Dame added a religious ‘tone and gravitas’ that had been missing in the city…
At a service to bless the departure of the Second Crusade, a fight broke out between Italian and Parisian priests, and Louis VII was struck in the face.
Churches were often compared to…
ships steering for harbour.
Notre dame took … centuries to complete.
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As in Roman days, under Sully the Parvis of Notre Dame became the true centre of Paris, with all distances of main roads measured from…
a bronze plaque set in the middle of it.
In the 13th and 14th centuries alone, ….. popes came from Notre Dame’s seminaries.
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Notre Dame’s role and reputation declined over time. In the 14th century, the streets neighbouring it were designated by the provost of Paris as an area for…
prostitution. Other buildings such as St. Denis, Rheims and Sainte-Chapelle took over its functions.
At the same time as he was building Notre Dame, Sully built the…
Hotel Die, named and patronised by Philippe Augustus, on the foundations of an older hospital.
Sully asked that every canon of Notre-Dame should bequeath a bed to Hotel Dieu, since one bed was often shared by…
5 people.
Under Sully’s administration, patients at the Hotel Dieu were separated for the first time by…
sex and illness.
In Suger’s time, Louis VI was important to Paris’ development. He replaced the wooden Grand Chatelet with…
a robust stone tower.
Under Louis VI’s stone chatelet grew a whole district dedicated to…
commerce and provisions, later known as Les Halles.
On the left bank, marshes were drained for new settlements, monks canalized the stream of the Bievre, and houses were built there by…
wealthy merchants.
The left bank under Louis VI also saw the beginnings of a famous academic centre under the tutelage of…
Peter Abelard. It was later known as the Sorbonne.
The year of the worst flood of the Seine in memory, which carried off both bridges, mills, houses and livestock.
1176
Before he left for the 3rd crusade, Philippe Auguste set down the Testament of 1190, which provided for the construction of a…
continuous fortified wall or enceinte girdling Paris, making her impregnable to any enemy assailant for the first time in her history. Philippe personally oversaw the construction. It was 10 metres high, had 67 towers and curved walls to deflect cannon balls.
Work started on the Louvre in…
- It was a major stronghold and treasury, not designed to be lived in as a palace (which it later was).
