How France Built
Her Cathedrals

A Study in the Twelfth
and Thirteenth Centuries

Gothic architecture the logical fulfillment of Romanesque—Origin ofRomanesque architecture—Romanesque basilicas modified by theliturgy—Horrors of the IX and X centuries in France—Rebirth ofthe builders’ energy after the year 1000—Cluny, the civilizing forceof the X and XI centuries—Various regional Romanesque schools ofFrance—Normandy, Burgundy, Auvergne, Poitou, Languedoc,Provence, and the Franco-Picard school—Birth of Gothic art—Anundecided question where the first diagonal-crossing ribs were used—Germany’sand Italy’s claims—Claim of England—The Ile-de-FrancePicard region, the classic land of Gothic—Gothic architecturenot a layman’s revolt against monkish Romanesque—The architectsof the Gothic cathedrals—No heretical tendencies in Gothic sculpture—Originof the term Gothic—XVII- and XVIII-century scorn forGothic architecture—Modern French school of mediæval archæology.

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