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Ring‐Width Dendrochronology, Isotopic Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating of Timbers From the Spire Scaffold of Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ten timbers from the spire scaffold of Salisbury Cathedral were dated using a combination of ring‐width dendrochronology, stable oxygen isotopic dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. Seven timbers were coeval and assigned a combined empirical felling date range of 1352–1378, which was further refined to 1351–1359 (OxCal 95.4%).
Kutsi D. Akcicek, Daniel Miles, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Darren Davies, Danny McCarroll, Neil J. Loader   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecclesiastical Architecture and the Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Seville Cathedral and the Church of the Sagrario.

Architectural Histories, 2014
When it came time for the critics and historiographers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to write the grand narrative of Spanish architecture, the decadence of Habsburg monarchy, economy and society was paralleled to the decline of ...
Sing d'Arcy
doaj   +1 more source

Celestial Vaults in English Gothic Architecture [PDF]

, 2011
Many of the vaults in English Gothic cathedrals and churches are catechisms of cosmologies and celestial vaults. The tierceron and lierne ribs at Lincoln Cathedral, for example, and later lierne and net vaults at Bristol Cathedral and St. Mary Redcliffe,
Hendrix, John S
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The Feasibility of a Chair Yoga Intervention to Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing for Adults With Learning Disabilities: A Pilot Study

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Yoga has been shown to have physical benefits for people with learning disabilities. It is unclear whether the mental health and wellbeing benefits of yoga found in other populations are apparent in people with learning disabilities. This study was a pilot. Method The study comprised three stages.
Dale Metcalfe, Alice Gibson‐Fisher, Toni J. Southern, Chris Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

« Il commanda qu’elle fust rasée et démolie jusques aux fondemens ». La destruction de la ville et de la cathédrale de Thérouanne (Pas-de-Calais) en 1553

Archéopages, 2014
In 1553, following the capture of the city by his imperial troops, Charles V decided to completely eradicate the episcopal city of Thérouanne, a French enclave in the Artois.
Olivier Blamangin, Laetitia Dalmau, Jérôme Maniez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thorncliffe Formation: A proglacial to subglacial lacustrine basin sequence, Greater Toronto Region, Canada

Boreas, EarlyView.
Map of Lower sediment (LS) thickness is a surrogate for the distribution of Thorncliffe Formation (TF) and ~75% of TF thickness from the slope of Niagara Escarpment east to Brighton. Inset images show the LS sequence at the Don Valleys brickyards (DVBY) and undeformed TF sand and gravel (~15 m) below Newmarket Till (NT) at sites L and Co.
David R. Sharpe, Charles E. Logan, Ross D. Knight, Andre J.‐M. Pugin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Sampling for BRDF Acquisition

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We propose a data‐driven adaptive sampling strategy that predicts the optimal sampling pattern and count for BRDF acquisition from a single image, reducing capture time while preserving quality. Abstract The bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) describes the ratio of incoming radiance to outgoing radiance for all possible pairs of ...
Behnaz Kavoosighafi, Saghi Hajisharif, Jonas Unger, Ehsan Miandji   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

History and Acoustics of Preaching in Notre-Dame de Paris

Heritage
This article investigates the audibility and intelligibility of preaching in a loud voice inside the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris during the Middle Ages, after the construction of the Gothic cathedral, until the late 19th century.
Elliot K. Canfield-Dafilou, Brian F. G. Katz, Beatrice Caseau Chevallier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

8. The Gothic Cathedral

, 1958
The Gothic cathedral, like the Summa of Aquinas, the University of Paris, and the Christendom of Innocent III, stands as one of the major expressions of the spirit of the High Middle Ages.
Bloom, Robert L., Crapster, Basil L., Dunkelberger, Harold A., Glatfelter, Charles H., Mara, Richard T., Richardson, Norman E., Schubart, W. Richard   +6 more
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Cathedral of the Sacred Heart: Friday Mass [PDF]

, 2015
Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth ...
Booth, Marianna
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