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TITLE: Palatine Chapel of Charlemagne - MIDDLE AGES

DESCRIPTION: Chapel attached to Charlemagne's palace - AACHEN, GERMANY - 792-805. CAROLINGEAN STYLE. Charlemagne enforced Christianity; sought to revive arts; emphasized education. Pepin the Short, Charlemagne's father, saved them from attack and saw the church in San Vitale at Ravenna, Italy. Charlemagne wanted copy built in his home of Aachen. NORTHERN ARCHITECTURE was a timber architecture (c/o they had so many forests) based on the BAY SYSTEM : transverse arches with independently strong sections between.