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MEDIAEVAL CHURCH VAULTING
Princeton Monographs in Art and Archaeology V
BY
CLARENCE WARD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE, RUTGERS COLLEGE
LECTURER ON ARCHITECTURE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1915
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Copyright, 1915, by
Princeton University Press
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Published November, 1915
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To A. M.
WITH THE LASTING AFFECTION OF THE AUTHOR,
WHO IS INDEBTED TO HIM FOR MUCH INSPIRATION
The student of Mediaeval architecture, especially of the Gothic era,finds perhaps its strongest appeal in the peculiar structural characterwhich it possesses. Greek architecture, even at its best, stronglyreflects a preceding art of building in wood. Roman architecture, whenit does not closely follow its Greek prototype, often depends upon amere revetment or surface treatment for its effects, and the Renaissancebuilders in