Christian Freigang

Les tours de transept autour de 1300. Remarques sur la différenciation architecturale de la liturgie dans les cathédrales gothique du Midi de la France

The author analyses reasons behind the prevalence, in the late 13th and the 14th centuries, of a type of transept with towers, frequently used above all in Southern France. Besides the fact that such transepts probably compensated for an unfinished nave with a western front, they were also built in relation to the then-increasing liturgical role of the church choir.

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