| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Romanesque | means "Romanlike." first applied in the early 19th century to describe European architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries |
| leige lord | landholding person who might grant tenure of a portion of his land to vassals |
| vassals | swore allegiance to their liege and rendered him military service in return for land and protection |
| charters | enumerated the communities' rights, privilages, immunities, and exemptions beyond the feudal obligations they owed the lords |
| tribune | upper gallery over the aisle opening onto the nave |
| radiating chapels | semicircular openings off of the ambulatory |
| transverse arches | in the nave, cylindrical piers support barrel vaults that run perpendicular to the nave's axis, one in each bay, separated by these |
| springing | the lowest stone of an arch |
| compound piers | piers with columns or pilasters attached to their rectangular core |
| campanile | bell tower |
| ribs | supporting arches |
| sexpartite vault | six sections of a large square vault compartment divided by ribs |
| incrustation | wall decorations consisting of bright panels of different colors |
| diaphragm arches | divide nave into equal compartments |
| cloister | enclosed space |
| vita comtemplative | the medieval church expressed the seclusion of the spiritual life |
| historiated | ornamented with figures |
| tympanum | the prominent semicircular lunette above the doorway proper |
| voussiors | wedge-shaped blocks that form the archivolts of the arch framing the tympanum |
| lintel | horizontal beam above the doorway |
| trumeau | center post supporting the lintel in the middle doorway |
| jambs | tside posts of the doorway |
| hall chuch | a church where the aisles are approximately the same height as the nave |
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