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Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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se bishops churcheswere wonderfully impressive and beautiful edifices. In allthe years that have passed since the thirteenth century,of which we are now speaking, men have never succeededin erecting any buildings that equal them in their unionof dignity, splendor, and beauty. When a cathedral was to be built the most famousarchitects and builders, the finest carvers in wood andstone, the most expert painters, and the cleverest makersof stained glass were summoned from France, where thegreatest skill was to be found, to take charge of the work.And not only that — all the people of the town had ashare in it also. Rich and poor alike helped to buildand ornament it with their own hands, or helped to payfor its erection with their money; and all alike had thedeepest pride and interest in it. 198 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY So it has come about that to-day all over England,France, Italy, and Germany these wonderful old churchesare to be seen. And they are still the pride and glory of
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Canterbury Cathedral, England their towns, although for more than five centuries theyhave been lifting their beautiful towers and spires tothe sky. Cathedral architecture. A cathedral floor was in theform of a cross. The long arm of the cross ran east andwest and was called the nave; the shorter part, crossingit, formed the transept; and separated from these twoparts by pillars and arches ran one or more side aisles. THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE AGES 199 The east end of the nave was called the choir. This wasthe most sacred part of the cathedral. Here were the altarand the sacred relics, and here High Mass was celebrated.Beneath the cathe-dral was a sort ofbasement, called thecrypt, which wasused as a place ofburial for distin-guished persons. The walls of acathedral were em-bellished with bril-liant paintings ofscenes from theBible and from thelives of the saints.The great windowswere divided intosmaller spaces byfine stone traceryand filled with pieces

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