So that the walls can basicallyĭisappear and be replaced by glass- colored Romanesque, relatively small windows- instead, Walls that are pierced by windows- and in the Instead to open up the space and to allow light to flood in. Literally separate rooms with walls around them. BETH HARRIS: In the pastĭuring the Romanesque period, these chapels would be Radiating chapels, that is, these small rooms That would move around the back of the altar. Would generally work is you would have an ambulatory Western church architecture, the way that this
And Suger really wanted toĬreate an architectural style that would express the The kings of France only really controlled Inadequate as the burial place of the kings.
BETH HARRIS: Now, SugerĬompleted the ambulatory and also the facade Is the aisle that would take one behind the altar. The choir is the space behind the altar of the church. since Suger himself was alsoĪ advisor to the royal family. Incredibly important because it's the burial Thanks to Suger, who was the abbot in the first STEVEN ZUCKER: Theīirthplace of the Gothic. That's why, in many churches, you'll find not only royalty, but all sorts of wealthy people buried inside.Īt the Basilica of Saint Denis.
Every burial plot costs money, and the most expensive ones are inside the church. If you think about it, this really parallels the common people's practice of burying their dead in graveyards outside churches. To name a few: (a) to honor the dead by burying them in grand places and allowing the public to visit (and pray over) their graves, (b) to assert the importance of Christianity in the kingdom by burying them in a church (though these people ruled over other people in their lives, ultimately God rules over all), (c) to protect the corpses from robbery, as medieval churches doubled as strongholds, (d) as a thank-you for either contributing to or allowing the construction of the church. There are many reasons for this practice. A hallmark of medieval (and even modern!) European civilization is royal burial in churches., and we see this in all the former European kingdoms.
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