Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Timeline vi
4. Contents vii
5. 1 FROM GLORY TO SUPPRESSION 1
6. 2 SET AND SETTING
7. The experience 5
8. The practice 9
9. Can words express this experience? 12
10. Pilgrimage 13
11. The Cistercians 16
12. Cistercian lords of war 18
13. 3 A VISIONARY THEOLOGY
14. Consequences of meeting the East 21
15. Centralised spaces for group worship 26
16. The Glory axis 28
17. The Glory axis takes priority 29
18. To summarise 30
19. 4 DARKNESS AND THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD
20. Darkness enhanced the light 33
21. The sepulchre and the bones 36
22. 5 ARCHITECTURE – THE STORY FROM THE MASONRY
23. Architecture with purpose 39
24. The evidence for the story 41
25. The mysterium on the cross axis 44
26. Notre-Dame and the First Gothic 48
27. 6 POLITICS – THE PROMISE AND REALITY
28. Consequences of the second crusade 55
29. All gone by 1200 59
30. Singular journey or spiral labyrinth? 60
31. What was the heresy at Notre-Dame? 61
32. Whitewashing 62
33. The revolt of the commune 63
34. 7 SCULPTURE AND SCULPTORS
35. Workshop methods 67
36. Defining stylistic boundaries 71
37. The Transition of the 1170s 72
38. Organisation of the data 74
39. 8 CONSTRUCTION
40. Concerning mortar and measure 75
41. Concerning campaigns 78
42. Concerning geometry 79
43. Concerning structure 80
44. Crusades impact on construction 80
45. 9 DATING AND THE MODEL
46. Building campaigns from the model 83
47. Chronology 84
48. Concerning precise dates 86
49. 10 THE FIRST CHURCH
50. Three small remnants 91
51. Chancel before the apse 94
52. Entry into the south aisle 96
53. Cornices in the sky 99
54. Size of the east tower 102
55. How old is the ossuary? 103
56. Two stories on the western tower 104
57. The First Church 105
58. 11 INTERLUDE 1 - PAPILLON A LOCAL CARVER 107
59. 12 SECOND CHURCH I - THE NAVE
60. Summary of the phases in the nave 115
61. Nave arcade, first phase 1105± 117
62. Nave arcade, second phase to 1113± 120
63. The "Cistercian" bases 1114± 122
64. Concerning the stability of the nave 1115± 124
65. South aisle 1113-1116± 126
66. Misplaced south doubleau 1113-1116± 126
67. North aisle 1116-1118± 128
68. Maintaining services while building 130
69. South clerestory wall 1116-1118± 130
70. North clerestory wall 1117-1119± 132
71. The strut 1118± 134
72. Transverse arches and groin vaults 1118-1121± 134
73. Building the groin vaults 138
74. Junction between tower and nave 139
75. 13 SECOND CHURCH II - THE LESSER CHAMBER
76. Lesser chamber and the canon's door 141
77. Straighten the aisle entry 1114± 144
78. Sepulchre window, the "Glory" 147
79. The sepulchre 1115± 149
80. North aisle: the other wide windows 1117± 151
81. The Way to mystic glory 153
82. North clerestory window 1119± 154
83. 14 SECOND CHURCH III - PILASTERS-S AND -N
84. Pilaster-S 159
85. Pilaster-N 167
86. West pilaster 171
87. Summary 175
88. 15 SECOND CHURCH IV - THE CHOIR
89. Priority to the chamber 1128-1135± 179
90. Two bays in the choir 182
91. Pilaster-E 1126-1131± 183
92. To separate or to merge? 184
93. Choir paused at the clerestory 1129± 187
94. Concerning stability in the choir 1128± 190
95. 16 SECOND CHURCH V - THE GREATER CHAMBER
96. Cornices under the roof <1090 and 1132± 193
97. Vault over the east crossing 1132-35± 196
98. Demolish the eastern tower 197
99. Leadership and decision-making 198
100. The roofs 198
101. Master plans 200
102. An unlikely alternative 201
103. The church when Louis and Eleanor arrived 202
104. 17 INTERLUDE 2 - PALMIER CARVER AND MASTER
105. Controlling details as well as templates 203
106. Look-alikes 207
107. Palmier as master mason 210
108. 18 THIRD CHURCH I - PORTAL AND ALIGNMENTS
109. Two axes, not one 211
110. Erecting the south portal 1137-1140± 215
111. Discrepancies in the portal 219
112. The obstruction dates the portal 221
113. The lost column figures 224
114. 19 THIRD CHURCH II - MASONRY
115. Site conditions and excavations 1137-1142± 227
116. Rate of construction 228
117. Complexity in a season 230
118. Join the north to the south 1138-42± 230
119. Rubble walls covered 231
120. Bases for groins in the east 1138± 232
121. Bases for ribs in the transepts 1138± 233
122. Band of gold 1138-1141± 234
123. Decorated bases 236
124. Compound piers and the "canopy of paradise" 238
125. North chamber buttresses 1137-38± 238
126. South chapel and the boundary 239
127. Eastern chapels 1138-44± 240
128. Changed plan for southern chapels 1141-44± 241
129. Chapel walls and arcades 242
130. The Mysterium 1139± 244
131. Rib shafts on consoles inserted into s1 244
132. Consoles in s3 246
133. South transept door and alignments 1143± 248
134. 20 THIRD CHURCH III - CAPITALS AND VAULTS
135. When were the choir capitals carved? 251
136. Concerning the choir capitals 1124± or 1129± 254
137. North vaults 1143-46± 256
138. North vaults and adjacent choir ribs 256
139. Placing the choir capitals 258
140. Explanations 260
141. 21 THIRD CHURCH IV - AFTER THE CRUSADE
142. Rate of construction 263
143. Rib vaults everywhere 267
144. Two roses 270
145. Plated capitals, mid-1150s± 270
146. The roofs, 1160s and later 272
147. Decision-making and multiple contracting 272
148. 22 FOURTH CHURCH - THE RESTORATION
149. Blocking the mysterium with two vaults 275
150. Blocking the inner camino and the Glory 282
151. The fourth task 288
152. The westworks 289
153. Opening the nave clerestory 292
154. Symbols of triumph 295
155. Later saints 296
156. A historical coda 296
157. A personal coda 297
158. 23 BIBLIOGRAPHY 299