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Notes on video lecture:
Notre Dame and the Wave of Cathedral Building
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 7, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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Amiens, 10, Muslims, 4th, invasions, Peace, Alexander, Viollet, Merovingian, Charlemagne, collapsed, Parisorum, 800, Magyars, God, Norsemen, Celtic, 1000, Sully, crusade, Christianized, 12th, Clovis, Viking, Stephen, capital, Childebert
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Paris of the          century was one of the great stopping places
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the city had been settled by a              tribe, the Parisii in the 3rd century BC
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52 BC Romans establish Gallo-Roman settlement "Lutetia                   "
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Île de la Cité
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where the Cathedral of Notre Dame built      centuries later
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early history of Paris
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3rd century AD
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France was                           
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occupied by Germanic King             
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496 converted to Christianity
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508 Clovis made Paris his               
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800                        united much of Europe under his rule
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814 Charlemagne died and Europe found itself vulnerable to                   
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               from the Mediterranean
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               from the east
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                 from Scandinavia
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845 Paris was attacked by              invaders
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sailed their ships up the Seine
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looted and burned what they could
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876 Viking invasion
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population 20,000
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885 Viking invasion
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911            treaty with Vikings
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1200 population 110,000
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1348 Black Death
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population 250,000
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plague was killing        people per day
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opening of trade routes
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Notre Dame
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and early basilica stood where Notre Dame now stands
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build in        century
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6th century
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Christianity became the official religion of state in Paris (Lutetia Parisiorum)
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Church of St.               
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                       church
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built to the west of the site of Notre Dame
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possibly under the reign of King                      (496-558)
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1182 East Choir completed
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Maurice de            (-1196)
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1163 corner stone of Notre Dame was laid
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in the presence of Pope                    III (1105-1181)
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first wall of Notre Dame built was restored in 19th century by Eugene Emmanuel               -le-Duc
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flying buttress
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was meant to offset a lateral pressure exerted by a wide ceiling vault
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some saw in a building so high, a violation of       
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1185
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3rd                was declared on the steps of Notre Dame
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vault of 32.8 meters, it was the highest church when built
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cathedrals at Noyon, Sens, Chartres (1194), Bourges,              (1221), Laon, Le Mans, Beauvais (1225), and Reims (1212) all surpassed Notre Dame in height
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the vault at Beauvais was so high that it                    in 1284
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many theologians, clergymen, statesmen and feudal princes were convinced that the world would end in 1000
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this may have curtailed the desire to built big and high, which became popular after         
Notre Dame and the Wave of Cathedral Building