Identifier: byzantineromanes02jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he other side ofDistinctive the Channel. In either country it has a distinct characterof Norman of Jts own, differing not much more widely from theSaxon work in England than from the other schools ofRomanesque architecture in France. It has none ofthe wealth of sculpture which plays so large a part inProvence, Toulouse, and Burgundy ; it challenges noneof the constructional problems solved in Aquitaine withits domes, or in the Auvergne with its barrel vaults;what little ornament it has is abstract, conventional, andrestrained, and it relies for effect on a sturdy straight-forward practical mode of construction, not looking muchto preceding styles for example, but working out asatisfactory result with simple means, and honest building.It is a style full of originality and pregnant with promiseof a great future : and in its magnificent simplicity andponderous majesty it gains in one way what it loses inanother by comparison with styles more refined andornate. architec-ture Plate CXXVIII
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S. MICHEL DE VAUCELLES-CAEN CHAPTER XXV THE ISLE OF FRANCE The royal domain during the Romanesque period Thewas confined within narrow Hmits, though the king domainexercised a more or less shadowy supremacy over thegreat feudatory dukes and counts whose dominions andpower exceeded his own. When Louis VI (Le Gros)came to the throne in 1108 the royal domain scarcelyextended beyond the cities of Paris, Orleans, Bourges,and the adjacent districts. His territory comprised onlythe modern departments of Seine, Seine et Oise, Seineet Marne, Oise and Loiret\ The six great peers of The great ■r^ 1 /~> r T-i 1 1 • • feudatories r ranee were the Count 01 r landers, whose territoriesreached from the Scheldt to the Somme, the Count ofChampagne, the Dukes of Normandy and Burgundy,the Count of Toulouse, and the Duke of Aquitaine whoincluded in his domains Poitou, Limousin, mostof Guienneand the Angoumois, and latterly Gascony. The Countsof Anjou, Ponthieu and Vermandois and others had helddi

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