#transept

[illustratus]

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

[eopederson]

Querschiff, Stephansdom, Wien, 2024.

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr phot with the most hits: the north transept, Chartres cathedral - a flamboyant exercise in medieval gothic.

[stevebowbrick]

[rh35211]

Seventeen Cool Facts About The Number 17 - Facts.net

17

The French word for 17 is “dix-sept”, which means “ten-seven”.

Like many other languages, French has its own unique system for counting and numbering. The word for 17 in French is “dix-sept”, which literally means “ten-seven”. This unusual phrasing adds a bit of character to the number 17 and makes it stand out from other numbers in the French language.

The 17th letter of the alphabet is “Q”.

The English alphabet consists of 26 letters, and the 17th letter in the sequence is “Q”. This letter is often used in words related to queens, questions, and quizzes. In addition, the letter “Q” is a valuable tile due to its relatively high point value in Scrabble and other word games

[arekmiodek]

Sklepienie transeptu w świątyni na terenie ruin średniowiecznego miasta, które kryją wspaniałe zabytki architektury kościelnej i obronnej. Ani w Turcji (fot. Arkadiusz Miodek)

[borgevino]

i simply think it would be fun & interesting to write or read a book where you've got some guys having problems in the foreground (as is typical), and some absolutely wild shit occurring in the background. you can tell the background stuff is more important in the long run, but the foreground guys will not STOP having problems (unrelated to the background). so you have to do the reader's equivalent of straining your neck and leaning in weird ways to peer around the foreground guys...

[wandixx]

Le me, reading "The Last King of Poland", a literal, freacking biography:

With all due respect, mister Adam Zamoyski, how dare you?! How freaking dare you?!

I know history, I know it will end with disaster. How dare you make Stanislaus Poniatowski (last king of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) and Catherine the Great (empress of Russia) (both would get these positions some time later btw) like cross between high-school sweethearts and star-crossed (ba dum pss) lovers. We both know it destroyed the country (not only that and the country was in pretty bad shape beforehand too, but still). It caused wars. I have romanticism and patriotic "fight for the fatherland even if you're guaranteed to loose bullshit shoved down my throat to this day because of shit that went down kinda because of them.

And you still make me actually sad when you wrote "When on 14 august 1758 he left Petersburg, he didn't suspect that next time he'll see Catherine will be thirty years later"

You can't make it look like Stanislaus is the first nice thing that happened to Catherine since she arrived to Petersburg. You can't describe them as soulmates, as two (and Stanislaus' second father figure) against the world. You can't say that he was reluctant to... do the thing with her, even speak with her because she seemed cold and later because she was wife of the future, kinda aggressive emperor and sleeping with her was easy way ticket to Siberia and Siberia is what Australia was to British Empire but really freaking cold. You can't then quote how after first time they spent night together Stanislaus wrote "In that moment I forgot that Siberia exist in this world"

You can't write about how distraught they were when they were apart for few months. You can write how they tried to tip toe around because politics. You can't add tension when they were found out and then have her husband (Paul, I think, I don't care about him enough to check) do one nice thing when Stanislaus confessed and Paul just... woke her up in the middle of the night, put her in front of Stanislaus and went "Well, I hope everyone is happy now"

You can't do all of that and expect me to not get invested. And I wasn't even that huge shipper of historical figures before, like c'mon.

And then they turn toxic.

How could you...

[inkbee]

Reading about medieval architecture so I can make the sparkledog oc equivalent of a convent

[sea-glass-and-fire]

got a little too into an escapist daydream scenario and started imagining the abandoned gothic hall it would take place in and now i can't sleep because i'm too into the speculative architecture of this neo gothic revival world i've created.

[blueiscoool]

Hidden Staircase in Church Leads to 400-Year-Old Burial Vault

Rare coins, rosary beads, human remains found inside coffins from hundreds of years ago.

Archaeologists have unveiled a 400-year-old burial vault after following a long-lost staircase.

The staircase was found in the Church of Saint Philibert in Dijon, France.

The Romanesque church dates back to the second half of the 12th century, according to the French National Institute for Preventative Archaeological Research (Inrap).

"In the transept, a vault, probably from the 15th-16th centuries, has been identified. In it, the deceased, children and adults, are buried in coffins, the bones of each individual being pushed to the sides to make room for the last deceased," said an Inrap press release.

The deceased consisted of mostly adults dressed in shrouds placed in wooden coffins.

"Very few objects were found in the tombs apart from rare coins and two rosaries," added the press release.

Archaeology crews with Inrap found that the foundation of the vault measures about 9 feet in depth, and slab tombs that were discovered date from the 11th through 13th centuries.

Six sarcophagi were also unearthed.

St. Philibert is the only Romanesque from the 12th century church left in Dijon, according to The Institutional Repository for the University of Notre Dame (CurateND).

"During the Revolution, the church was abandoned in 1795. It was given to the city which razed the two chapels and apse of the church to expand the present Rue des Vieilles-Ovens in 1825," according to research posted on CurateND.

St. Philibert is open to the public on select dates for Heritage Days.

By Ashley J. DiMella.

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the south transept of St John Lateran, Rome.

[maiamars]

"It had been years since his last vigil. And I was younger then, a boy of fifteen years. He had worn no armor then, only a plain white tunic. The sept where he'd spent the night was not a third as large as any of the Great Sept's seven transepts. Jaime had laid his sword across the Warrior's knees, piled his armor at his feet, and knelt upon the rough stone floor before the altar. When dawn came his knees were raw and bloody. "All knights must bleed, Jaime," Ser Arthur Dayne had said, when he saw. "Blood is the seal of our devotion." With dawn he tapped him on the shoulder; the pale blade was so sharp that even that light touch cut through Jaime's tunic, so he bled anew. He never felt it. A boy knelt; a knight rose. The Young Lion, not the Kingslayer."

At five-and-ten, Ser Jaime Lannister was already a knight—an honor he had received from the hand of Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, whom many considered to be the realm's most chivalrous warrior. Jaime's knighthood had been won during Ser Arthur's campaign against the outlaws known as the Kingswood Brotherhood, and none could doubt his prowess.

[silverirony]

so what you're saying is i can just start digging and everything will work out yipee :)

im done waiting 1000 years to do my research. get out NOW

[mioritic]

Keystone depicting St. Michael's victory over the devil, above the transept of Szent Mihály-templom (St. Michael's Church / Biserica Sf. Mihail), constructed 1316–1487

Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár, Transylvania

Photographed on 26 December 2024