Capitolo 11
annual pilgrimage to the Mountain in the day of the archangel, October 16.
We wait for there to be orders to call out a new country that the Duke William
threat against the Brittany, and we feel histories that the Harold the
Saxon, the powerful Earl of Wessex in England, is a guest, or, as
some say, a prisoner or a hostage, to the Court of the Duke and it will go
with us on the country. The year is 1058.
This whole duration we am being standing on the church square, looking on out
the sea and sands as which I/you/they are as the good panorama of eleventh-century
they was never; or turning to durations toward the door of church that is
the pons seclorum, the bridge of age, among our ancestors and we.
Now that we have made an attempt, as he is, to find our minds
in a condition to cross the bridge without storming down the
effort, us digitiamo the church and face of stand to face with eleventh-
architecture of century; an earth-plan that is together from 1020; a plant
you tower, or his/her benches, the appointment is given by 1058; and a church completed in
1135. France can offer the few equally old buildings of this importance,
with dates so exact. Perhaps the more parallel next to Mont-Saint-
Michel is Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, above of Orleans that seems to have
almost state a popular shrine as the Mountain, to the same duration.
Rentals were also a famous shrine, but of the Virgo and the west
portico of Rentals that has to be our particular pilgrimage was a
one hundred years later that the earth-plan of Mont-Saint-Michel,
even if it Rents portico it is the beginning-point been accustomed to of northerner
French art. The Abbaye-aux-dames of Queen Matilda, now the Church of the
Trinity, to Caen given by 1066. Sernin Santo to Toulouse, the
portico of the Church of Abbey to Moissac, Notre-dame-du-hands to
Clermont, the Church of Abbey to Vezelay they are all they said to be twelfth-
century. Also Mark of St. to Venice it was new in 1020.
Still in the 1020 Norman art it was already too much ambitious. Certainly nine