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English 170 Medieval Revival and the Arts
Prof. Thornbury -Study of the Medieval Revival in Victorian England: gothic architecture, pre-raphaelite art, Tennyson, Ruskin, Henry Adams, medieval ballads, Malory, Pugin, Morris, Rosetti, Walpole,
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Medieval Studies
Undergraduate 3
05/07/2011

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The Castle of Otranto
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Horace Walpole, published 1764

themes: Gloomth-the effect of gloom or shadow, phantasmagoria-horror,power:fall of the monarchy 1649 execution of Charles I: can be seen in Manfred's tyrrany and falling architecture
Characters:
Manfred
Hippolita
Matilda
Isabella
Jerome
Frederic
Theodore
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Ivanhoe
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Sir Walter Scott, published 1819

Themes: the historical romance, involves marvelous scenes-out of the ordinary, psychological realism, multiple stories at once, elements of the latin epic "Thebaid" ex: joust scene/chaucer knight's tale,, elements of the picturesque, antiquarianism, Translation Imperii:translation of power to a place ex: the oak tree and english power, also Saxon architecture
Robin Hood characters:
Curtal Friar and Tuck/Locksley
some characters based in medieval ballads*
Main Characters:
Wilfred
King Richard I
Rowena
Rebecca
Cedric
De Bracy
Wamba
Price John*
Friar Tuck*
Locksley-Robin Hood*
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The Nature of the Gothic
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John Ruskin, Essay from The Stones of Venice, 1853

elements of gothic architecture:
savageness
naturalism
grotesqueness
changefulness
rigidity
redundancy
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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Keats, written 1819

Nature and female sexuality, lyrical connections to medieval ballads and style is similar, courtly love, random syllables and broken rhymes-natural style
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Reliques of English Poetry
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Thomas Percey, 1765
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, the disguised knight, mysterious/mythic

some of the earliest medieval poetry to be published, heavily altered
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Thomas the Rhymer
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Walter Scott, 1820

fairyland
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Phantasmagoria
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17th century horror picture shows using optics and the magic lantern. Gloomth and the supernatural aspects of middle ages
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News From Nowhere
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William Morris,
Useful work vs. Useless toil, work and industrialism
The Lesser Arts
improving life for all classes, art not just for the rich but in everything-decor/patterns of morris
Dream of John Ball 1886-7
integrating Victorian and medieval times- the role of the church and art
Th Unknown Church, 18??
: Percey Canopy reference, architecture and the biological fallacy
Gothic Architecture, 1889
the arch
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The Defense of Guenevere
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William Morris, 1858

Arthurian tale of morals
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Pugin, 1836 medieval arch versus modern. Asserts the the catholic church and its integration with society were essential to healthy living/life was better before industrialism. influence:1534 church of england separates from rome
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1340-1349 Percy Canopy, beverly minster Morris's Unknown Church references this medieval element built 1340-1349
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Salisbury cathedral 1263-1330, nave Early English Gothic groin vaulting Architecture,slender columns and pointed arches
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Durham Cathedral 1093-1133, Norman /Romanesque style-heavy blocks, small windows, little buttressing, rounded arches
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Fonthill 1795-1807 Wyatt builder, tower fell
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1260 yorkminster north transcept, Five Sisters Window-lancets
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Westminster Abbey Henry VII chapel pendant valuting, 1509-1519 late gothic, decorated style
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Houses of Parliment 1836, Pugin and Barry
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Cheadle, St. Giles Pugin, 1846-rood screen
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Delacroix, 1858, The Abduction of Rebecca
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Delacroix, 1846 The Abduction of Rebecca (Ivanhoe)
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Tintern Abbey, Philip James DeLoutherbourg, 1805
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Strawberry Hill Horace Walpole, Chute (arch), 1749-1770
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Lord of the Tournament and his esquires, 1840 Hodgeson and Graves, litho
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Queen of Beauty, James Nixon 1839
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The Melee, Eglinton Tournament, 1839, James Nixon
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Waterhouse, 1893
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Exeter, 1279-1360, fan vaulting and exterior-decorated style
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Malmesbury, 1150-1170, Norman Romanesque
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Sherborne Abbey, 1437-59, perpendicular, decorated, fan vaulting in nave
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Picturesque
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Mixes nature and the sublime, a symmetrical, wild or rustic setting, not perfectly balanced-often portrayed lower class in country and cows.
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The Sublime
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often mixed with nature or compared to landscape. Can be seen in vertical arches, "the sacredness of the land"
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Historical Romance
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Sir Walter Scott, focuses on change, is rooted in history, focuses on the marvelous
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Translatio Imperii
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the translation of power into a place: the strength of the oak tree, power of england
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Oratore
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those who pray, upper class citizen
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Bellatore
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those who fight, lower than sublime but high still: knights and kings
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laboratores
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those who work-lower class
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sestina
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six lines of verse, cdcd dede ecde
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octave
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eight lines abbaabba
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contemptus Mundi
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rejection of being worldly
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Rosetti, The Blessed Damozel, 1871?

 

Around her, lovers, newly met
'Mid deathless love's acclaims,
Spoke evermore among themselves
Their heart-remember'd names;
And the souls mounting up to God
Went by her like thin flames.

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Rosetti, The girlhood of mary, 1848-9
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Ballade
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3 , eight line stanzas: ababbcb +bcbc
ex:dante gabriel rosetti
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Momento Mori
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remember your mortality, something which reminds one of death
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William Morris, 1858, La beale Iseult
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The Lamentation of Arthur, 1847, William Bell Scott
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The Lady of Shallot, 1850, William Holmann Hunt
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Elizabeth Siddal, The lady of Shallot at her loom, 1853
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Lady of Shallot, Waterhouse, 1888
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Lady of Shallot, Henry Robinson
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Flame from Queen Helen to Queen Guenevere?
For first of all the sphery signs whereby
Love severs light from darkness, and most high,
In the white front of January there glows
The rose-red sign of Helen like a rose:
And gold-eyed as the shore-flower shelterless
Whereon the sharp-breathed sea blows bitterness,
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Swinburne, Tristram of Lionesse, 1882
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The Albert Memorial, 1863-72 (unveiled in 76)
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malmesbury cross, market square, 1490
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St. Pancras Station, 1868-74, George Gilbert Scott
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Gustave Dore, 1832-83 illustrations of Idylls of the king, Tennyson
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the grail quest
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the vision of self perfection, the devotion to a spiritual force, In tennyson this can be seen as the opposing force to earthly delights and temptation like courtly love. The perfect character is generally a problem and must be tested: courtly love versus marriage: ex: Lancelot and Guen
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psychomachia
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battle of vices and virtue, aspects of a persons nature
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the bridal quest
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much like the grail quest, adultery/courtly love versus familial, marriage love-the morality of the round table embodies this and thus the fall and death of arthur in idylls of the king
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The Last sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881-98, Edward burne jones
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Mont St. Michel and Chartes
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Henry Adams, 1904, wtf mate-travel narrative and philosophy
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salle des chevaliers 1210-30, nervures example
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nervures
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nervous system,henry adams applied this to the arches in cathedrals, as a part of the life-force or energy within a cathedral
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clocher
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bell tower, central tower of cathedral
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Notre Dame, Coutances
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mid 13th c., tower 14th c.
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apse
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sacred shrine for storing reliques, central
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Notre Dame de Mantes
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1170-1200, "a fact to Adams, fact as a superstructure which brings time into a place"
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Notre Dame De Mantes, 1170-1200
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Chartes, portal s spire 1140-1150
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chartres, north tower, 1140
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Chartes North spire, 1507-13
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Chartes rose window, 13th c
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N. porch tympanum, Chartres,1215 representation of the virgin mary
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rose of france, chartres, 1233 the virgin and st. anne, female rep.
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rose de dreux, chartres, 1221-30, christ in glory, virgin with child, masculine
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Rose window, the last judgement, Chartres, 1215, lancets 1150-passion infancy and life of christ
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lancet window
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tall narrow window with a pointed arch at its top
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rose window
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divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery-english flower or wheel window
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courtly love
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Usually adultery if acted upon, conception of nobly and chivalrously expressing love and admiration. In essence, courtly love was an experience between erotic desire and spiritual attainment that now seems contradictory, "a love at once illicit and morally elevating, passionate and disciplined, humiliating and exalting, human and transcendent"
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biological fallacy
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the birth, rise and fall of a society or art, taking the best at the peak of the arc, many medieval revivalists tore down norman arch and replaced it with the epitome, decorated style.
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Medieval
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of the middle ages
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Medievalism
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The victorian revival of middle ages via aesthetics and philosophy
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antiquarianism
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rooting perspective in a learned historical perspective: Walter Scott and architecture/Normans and Saxons
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Romance: interlace
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the weaving of stories together in an ornate pattern:scott's Ivanhoe
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Thebaid
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latin Epic,mythology, episodic, fatalism
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petrarchan Sonnet
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14 lines, Octave abbaabba followed by a sestet-six lines, volta or change in the theme/problem introduced
Thomas Wyatt
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ballad
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lyrical poem usually sung
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terza rima
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rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme
A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D
first used by chaucer
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flying buttress
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It serves to transmit the lateral forces pushing a wall outwards (which may arise from stone vaulted ceilings or from wind-loading on roofs) across an intervening space and ultimately down to the ground. Flying buttress systems have two key components - a massive vertical masonry block (the buttress) on the outside of the building and a segmental or quadrant arch bridging the gap between that buttress and the wall
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gable
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triangular portion of a wall between the edges of a sloping roof
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fleche
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sounds like flesh, used by Henry Adams to describe church spires
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groin vaulting
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double barrel vault or cross vault- is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
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rib vaulting
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The intersection of two or three barrel vaults produces a rib vault or ribbed vault Durham, early gothic
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fan vaulting
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orm of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan. decorated period
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pendant fan vaulting
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A pendant vault is a rare form of vault used in late Gothic architecture in which large decorative pendants hang from the vault at a distance from the walls Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey.
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nave
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In Romanesque and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral basilica and church architecture, the nave is the central approach to the high altar, the main body of the church. "Nave" (Medieval Latin navis, "ship") was probably suggested by the keel shape of its vaulting
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choir
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Part of the church east of the crossing, usually occupied by the priests and singers of the choir often hidden out of sight or seperate
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crossing
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Space where the transept intersects with the nave along the main axis of the church
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transcept
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Any major transverse part of the church, usually crossing the nave and at right angles with the entrance of the choir
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Morte De Arthur
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Malory 1470
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Idylls of the King
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Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1885?
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DGR Beata Beatrix 1860s
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Holman Hunt Scapegoat 1856
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Millais Christ in the house of his parents, 1850
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Millais, Mariana, 1851
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burne jones, Merlin and Vivien 1874
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burne jones merlin and nimue, 1856?
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