The Holy Grail on medieval architecture

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A friend of my parrents gave them this link so I could use it as a reference. It’s an architectural dictionary and even though everything is in French and I don’t understand a word of it, it’s absolutely awesome. Most articles are suplied with plenty of technical drawings and/or floorplans and have an assload of text to them that’s probably very descriptive (haven’t tried deciphering any of it yet, my French is that bad). There’s a lot on gothic architecture as well as military and civilian buildings. It deals with stuff from the 11th to the 16th century.

http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_raisonn%C3%A9_de_l%E2%80%99architecture_fran%C3%A7aise_du_XIe_au_XVIe_si%C3%A8cle

In any case, I just thought I’d share it in hope sthat somebody might find it useful:
p.s. this is the correct board for stuff like this, right?

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cool thanks :slight_smile:

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Try this http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_French_Architecture_from_the_11th_to_16th_Century?match=fr

I think it points to the same site but with some of it translated into English, and also the rest of the “Tomes?”:confused:…

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Yeah, nine ‘Tomes’ (Volumes I think) each about 500 pages. I accidentaly linked to an article instead of the index. Sorry about that. Fixed it.

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You got it right, Volume is the translation of Tome in this case.