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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st king to make any pretensionto authority within its limits was Louis VII who hadmarried his sister to the reigning count. But thedistance from Paris and royal domain, the differences oflanguage and laws continued to keep the people of thisprovince distinct from those of the north.Persecu- They Were brought into cruel relation to them Aibigenses howcver in the 12th century and afterwards, by thecrusade preached in 1208 against the Aibigenses whosetenets they favoured. The war was prosecuted withevery atrocious barbarity which superstition the motherof crimes could inspire. Languedoc, a country for thatage flourishing and civilized, was laid waste, her citiesburned, her inhabitants swept away by fire and thesword\ It is therefore not surprising that the remains of Romanesque architecture in the county of Toulouse are s. Sernin, not abundant. The great church of S. Sernin at Toulouse Toulouse jg ^.j^g most important monument of the style in the ^ Hallam, Middle Ages, chap. I. Plate CIX
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S. SERXIN—TOULOUSE J N CH. xxi) FRANCE—TOULOUSE 83 i2th century (Fig. 91). It is an immense cruciform church, s. Semin,with double aisles to the nave, and a single aisle sur-rounding both the sides and ends of the transepts, andit finishes eastward in an apse surrounded by an am-bulatory aisle, with five semi-circular chapels projectingfrom it. It thus possesses every feature of the completeplan of French ecclesiology. The nave is less than 30 ft. wide, and strikes one asnarrow for so vast an edifice. Viollet-le-Duc however TOULOUSE s- SERMH

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