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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval
Publisher: New York, The Baker and Taylor Company
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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offered,however, two great drawbacks to the northern builders: in thefirst place, it destroyed the effect of the lofty clearstory, thusdwarfing the height of the nave; secondly, it exerted upon theclearstory walls a powerful thrust, which the inexperiencedbuilders of the North were probably unable to meet. At Ju-mieges these difficulties were avoided by omitting the transversearch, while the advantages of the Lombard system were retainedby preserving the shaft which had supported it. Surely thiswas neither an illogical nor an incomprehensible proceeding,and the precedent for the engaged shaft is thus found near athand. How entirely successful this expedient was judged tobe at the time, is proved by the fact that engaged shafts became 1 At S. Zeno of Verona, a church of the XII century, there are to be found transverse archesand also certain shafts evidently intended to support arches which were never constructed. Theseshafts are entirely analogous to those of Jumieges. (111. 111.) 258
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ILL. 131. – Section of Abbaye-aux-Hommes of Caen (From Ruprich-Robert)

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