The Romanesque as Relic:
Michalis Olympios
With The Romanesque as Relic: Architecture and Institutional Memory at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Omer, Michalis Olympios contributes to ongoing discussions about architectural visualization institutional history practiced by medieval religious foundations in Latin Europe. This article focuses on collegiate church Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), a rare surviving example building from region French Flanders preserving fabric fromthe eleventh sixteenth centuries. More specifically, examines apsidiole chapel Notre-Dame-des-Cloches its integration into edifice's Gothic north transept, erected third quarter fifteenth century. A close reading architecture, narrative hagiographic sources, unpublished archival documents demonstrates that, many other instances across Europe, retention this earlier feature reflects secular chapter's conscious decision showcase antiquity prestige providing visual “evidence” foundational myth.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians