. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. S!». Si-c-lii)ii III (?(?rriiiuiiy-k-s-rres ABSIDIOLES Of these innovations probably the first was the addition ofchapels to supply extra storage room for relics. We have al-ready seen that in the East it had become customary to termi-nate the side aisles of the basilica in the chapels of the prothesisand apodosis flanking the main apse. These chapels in Syriaand Egypt later became square, but the original form was semi-circular. The plans of such Eastern churches doubtless sug-geste
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. S!». Si-c-lii)ii III (?(?rriiiuiiy-k-s-rres ABSIDIOLES Of these innovations probably the first was the addition ofchapels to supply extra storage room for relics. We have al-ready seen that in the East it had become customary to termi-nate the side aisles of the basilica in the chapels of the prothesisand apodosis flanking the main apse. These chapels in Syriaand Egypt later became square, but the original form was semi-circular. The plans of such Eastern churches doubtless sug-gested to the Western builders the idea of adding to the basilicachapels similiar to those of the prothesis and apodosis, whichmight serve to contain altars with relics of the saints. Thesewere introduced into most (though not all) Western basilicasat a very early time in our period, and continued in general usethroughout the Carolingian era. (111. 94.) The disposition of these apsidal chapels was modified inthe so-called T-formed basilicas, so many of which werebuilt along the upper Rhine in the ti
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