Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Notes on French Rood-lofts. 135 M. Viollet le Due states that wooden ones still exist in somecountry churches of Bretagne, the most remarkable beingthat of St. Fiacre at Le Faouet (Morbihan), which datesfrom the end of the fifteenth century and is entirely painted. Let us now for a moment consider the origin of the jubeas it has existed since the thirteenth century. M. Viollet leDue tells us that the great French cathedrals built at the endof the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries notonly possessed no jtibe
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Notes on French Rood-lofts. 135 M. Viollet le Due states that wooden ones still exist in somecountry churches of Bretagne, the most remarkable beingthat of St. Fiacre at Le Faouet (Morbihan), which datesfrom the end of the fifteenth century and is entirely painted. Let us now for a moment consider the origin of the jubeas it has existed since the thirteenth century. M. Viollet leDue tells us that the great French cathedrals built at the endof the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries notonly possessed no jtibes, but were not erected with a view tosuch a structure. The sanctuary was uniformly unenclosed,and the jube only made its appearance after the Act of Unionof the Barons of France in 1246, when the bishops were forcedto surrender their claim to have cognizance of all judiciaryproceedings—a claim based on the pretext that, every suitbeing the result of a fraud, and every fraud a sin, it was forthe religious authority to judge in matters of real, personal,or mixed prop
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