Charles Cathedral

“The Charles Cathedral” situated in Paris, France. Basically we can see that the style used in this Cathedral was Gothic. This style essentially bloomed through the Western Europe throughout the middle ages. The Gothic style began in France, then as the time went by it started to become more well-know, because of the brilliant cathedrals that were manufactured base on this style. I can say that one of the most important aspect of this cathedrals were it gratifying structure, which gave the feeling of tallness altitudes that cough devotee’s eyes to look upward towards heaven. In order to accomplish such effect, the architectures had to come up with a ridged tomb, kind of roof which was hold by sharp arches. This arch were twisted with thin marbles ribs which extent from high column. However most of the carry was offered by arm that looks like big smiles called the flying buttresses. They also bend against the exterior walls of the Cathedral. Still ridged tomb and flying buttresses compact a huge quantity of hard wall space which was required for the holding. As a result, these Gothic constructions have walls load up with huge and clear colored stained glass windows that showed religious prospects. Another purposed of these windows was to allow more light inside the cathedral and too illuminate the purplish shine. This effect would impact the devotee faith. Yet the outside of the wall were decorated with statues and biblical figures. Some of them were if full size and three dimensional. For instance Gargoyle makes a good example of this figure. They architectural propose was to drain water from roof of the church, the flat back with the channel to catch the rainwater and with and opened mouth to carry the rain water from the wall; it was artistically and beautiful. Still Christianity gave it its religious meaning. For the Gargoyle propose was to scare away the evil spirits or ghost.

When Roman Empire end a huge hole was left on western society. Their culture, belief, government, everything was seemed to be lost. Yet as time went by western society had to face the middle ages mostly know as the “Dark Ages”. During this time period huge amount of land was left to be ruled by kings. This king or land Lords had to provide strong governments measures in order to mating peace and security under a feudal system. They had to distribute the land in to the nobles which were the high class vassals. These vassals also had the Knight who had also small portions of the land and were used to guard the land. Finally there were the peasants which were the people who actually work the land. This people could only fed on what they could cultivar. Church at this time had a huge power over the king and everyone else. Still some peasant started to form separate society from the knight, basically they set around the rivers to make easy the trade. Yet the peasant did not stop negotiating with each other and even the knights itself. Therefore this outside society started grow and grow. They had people that mastered some arts. They even got to the point from where they talk to the church and negotiate with them. The peasant told the church that they were going to pay them in order for the church to teach them. Right after the church started to open what was calling the “Universitas”. There they offered a variety of degrees. Degrees like Arts and Science. People started to learn more and more. Their cultured spans in a big ways, because the churches got this book translated to the Latin which they receive from the Arab people. Then the people in the Middle Ages started to learn more of the ancestor the Romans. They learn the Arts, Architecture and other things. Therefore they went in to the Romanesque stile, which basically was to bring back the Roman style of architecture. From there they started to improve their architectural styles and went to the Gothic Style which meant to be “Barbarous or mean”. This building did not follow the Greece and Roman models. But basically it was an introduction of a style which only reviewed the medieval period.