Reveriedheart - Amour

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

oh september, how you have my heart.

fall is here 🍂🍁

Making amends (panel 1 and 2).

Brené Brown, Daring Greatly

10 More Words Related to Medieval Art & Architecture

to include in your poem/story

1. Monstrance: A vessel created to display the consecrated Host, the body of Christ. They were first created in response to the Feast of Corpus Christ established in 1263 that enabled the faithful to see and venerate the consecrated Host on a crescent moon-shaped mount. Monstrances were used in liturgical processions, especially on feast days, and were also placed on the altar.

2. Ogee Arch or Ogive: An arch with a pointed apex, formed by the intersection of two S curves usually confined to decoration and not used in arcade arches. Ogee arches were used only in the late Gothic period.

3. Pediment: A triangular space above a window or entrance. Originally, the triangular space was formed by the end of a gable roof and later was used decoratively.

4. Quatrefoil: An ornamental form which has four lobes or foils. It may resemble a four-petaled flower.

5. Refectory: Dining room in a monastery.

Refectory at Mont-Saint-Michael, France

6. Scriptorium: Area in a monastery where books and documents were written, copied, and illuminated.

7. Trefoil: An ornamental form which has three lobes or foils.

8. Trumeau Figure: Statue decorating a trumeau (i.e., vertical architectural member between the leaves of a doorway. Trumenus were often highly decorated). Usually this was a human figure, usually a religious personage.

9. Tympanum (plural, tympana): The semicircular area enclosed by the arch above the lintel of an arched entranceway. This area is often decorated with sculpture in the Romanesque and Gothic periods.

10. West End: The area of the church opposite the east end. The west end usually functions as the main entrance to the church. When one enters a church from the west end, the left side is the north side, and the right is the south side.

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Words Related to Medieval Art & Architecture (pt. 1)

Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

ah comfort

Bookish places in France 🇫🇷

La Nuit (before 1937)

— by Auguste Raynaud