Chapter 16 Key Vocabulary
Terms
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- fibula
- a decorative pin favored by the Romans
- cloisonné
- a process of enameling using cloisons
- viks
- coves or 'trading places' of the Norwegian shoreline; Vikings are named after these
- staves
- wedge-shaped timbers placed vertically
- canon tables
- a concordance, or matching, or corresponding passages of the 4 Gospels
- psalters
- comtained 150 psalms of Kind David, written in Hebrew, translated into Greet and Latin
- lectionaory
- contains passages from the Gospels reordered to appear in sequence
- breviaries
- inclue texts required for daily recititaions of monks
- sacramentaries
- used by priests, and incorporate the prayers they recited during Mass
- benedictionals
- contain bishops' blessings
- vulgate
- vulgar, or common tongue
- manu scriptus
- Latin for manuscripts
- Scriptoria
- writing studios
- zoomorphic
- of or pertaining to a deity or other being conceived of as having the form of an animal
- carpet pages
- resemble textiles
- colophon
- an inscription, usually on the last page, providing info about the book's manufacture
- lectern
- cross-legged chair
- opus reticulatum
- method of facing concrete walls with lozenge-shaped bricks or stones to achieve a netlike ornamental surface pattern
- string course
- raised horizontal molding, or band
- laity
- nonclergy
- module
- standard unit
- castlellum
- Latin for castle or fortress
- turris
- tower
- reliquary
- a shsrine of sacred reliefs