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Ashlar Blocks
Carefully cut blocks at stone used in construction and usually fitted together without mortar
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Crusades
Were a series of religiously sanctioned military campaigns waged by much of Western Christian Europe, particularly by the Franks of France and the Holy Roman Empire
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Diaphragm Arches
A wall bearing arch that divides or compartmentalizes a vault of ceiling
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Engaged Column
A column-like, nonfunctional form projecting from a wall and articulating it visually
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Facade
Front of a building
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Jambs
The side of a doorway or window frame
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Mandorla
An almond-shaped nimbus around the figure of Christ or images of saints indicating divinity
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Pilgrimage
A long quest/journey or search of great moral significance
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Pilgrimage Choir
The unit in a Romanesque Church composed of the apse, ambulatory, and radiating chapels
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Radiating Chapels
Chapels arranged around the ambulatory and sometimes the transept of a medieval church
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Romanesque Arch
Rounded arch used in Romanesque architecture
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Square Schematism
Crossing square formed by name and transept used as the standard unit of measurement for the rest of the church
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Vulgate
A Latin version of the Bible prepared by St. Jerome in the 4th century, serving as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church
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