Marcigny, Paray-le-Monial et la question de la chapelle mariale dans l’organisation spatiale des prieurés clunisiens au XIe–XIIe siècle
Nicolas Réveyron
The Notre-Dame chapel is a typical building of the monastic life at Cluny and Ecclesia Cluniacensis, as well antechurch. directly connected to chapter house opened on it. It major importance in Cluniac liturgy: morning service, sunday feast processions, deathwatch, laying-out bodies, etc. construction chapel, initially basic, can be complex certain way, Marcigny or Polirone buildings. This complexity indicates goals builders, who took their inspiration from late antique Carolingian architecture.
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