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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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XII century it constantlyrecurs in Norman work. After the chevron, the most important decoration which theNormans derived from Carolingian sources was the engagedarcade. This feature, which we have already noticed at Ger-migny-les-Pres (111. 89), was common to almost all westernEurope, although the Normans developed it in a fashion pecu-liarly their own. Engaged arcades were employed as early as1067 on the towers of Jumieges (111. 121, 122); the original clear-story of the Abbaye-aux-Hommes erected soon after, was prob-ably supplied with exterior arcading (111. 126); and the towersof this monument certainly were (111. 133). However, the useof the engaged arcade was exceptional during the XI century;it was only in the XII century that the motive came into itsown and was employed constantly, inside and outside, every-where, upon the edifice. This ornament, it should be noticed, isalways carved into the thickness of the wall, and never applied to it. 1 Also called the pyramid-flower.276
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