imagine a more imposing building a vaulted ceiling of this size had not been seen in the west since antiquity for 1000 years. and in terms of size spire cathedral did not have to fear the competition certainly not from homes and not even from minds. and while villegas his work in mines his dark and early romanesque in style henry's cathedral was more numinous. as if it were quietly anticipating the gothic period.

the historical museum of the pole at need has a model of the head of henry the 4th made by a forensic scientist based on the original find of his skull and perhaps we can read the tragedy of henry's life from his face it was a life marked by strife the pope excommunicated him his sons rebelled against him and the year his cathedral was consecrated was also the year of his death. unleashed a foot to his and kaiser declan's into zones on a full of fog like you henry the 4th was an emperor who reigned in thought entirely in the tradition of his ancestors he viewed as monarchy as god given and inherited from his father's house in the flesh and that made him very unprepared for an ethical conflict which broke out in the 2nd half of the 11th century and which suddenly called the authority of the king into question as you. the king was viewed by the church reformers as a layman and no longer as one anointed by god or goddess. and that developed into

a fundamental conflict around the question of which was to take precedence on earth the power of the church or the secular power as it does a conflict this conflict erupted in the so-called investiture controversy which was about much more than the investiture of bishops of would be fought was about the question of who needed whom the have you had precedence over who and who had to obey and was. henry the 4th didn't want to obey that was a tragedy but also his pride as a capable. father and he expressed this pride above all in the rebuilding of by a cathedral i know. there was an outstanding architectural achievement leading to the largest church in western christian time at the time because it is outside through that. in fact the cathedral fulfilled the function for which it had originally been intended. to be a tomb for the salience in the summer of 1900 historians excavated the floor of the

church and opened the more than 800 year old coffins. it was an investigation intended to boost the historical significance of the new german empire under kaiser vilhelm the 2nd and to inform the public about the great deeds of his predecessors . featuring large in this history was the 1st salient emperor conrad who had started building the largest romanesque church his remains and those of his family including his wife gisela described as a woman of beauty and intelligence were now to be carefully studied the historical investigation describes henry the 4th as a man of impeccable form he was described as handsome full of masculine strength and almost feminine. grace. a special find was the golden sapphire ring on henry's right ring finger it was

a bishop's ring perhaps the final defiant message from an emperor who believed he possessed the sole authority to invest bishops with ring and staff. henry's burial crown was carefully restored at the historical museum of the platen 8. it was the symbol of power of an emperor who was viewed by his supporters as anointed by god by his opponents as the embodiment of evil and who throughout his life insisted that his crown was conferred upon him directly by god without the intercession of the church. his cathedral dedicated to mary the mother of god represented for him the divine affirmation of saving rule set in stone surpassing any papal claims and it seems to have provided him with

a foothold for his own personal faith. he must have been deeply shaken when the bishop of his cathedral made him turn over the imperial insignia to his disloyal son. old chronicles show him surrounded by his bishops and his 2 sons in apparent harmony but that account is an example of medieval propaganda. both sons had rebuild against their father and the suppose it harmonious handover of power to his youngest son was in fact an act of great violence. dispute is an affiliate for itself to help this kind this picture is a complete distortion of reality throughout the gig in reality against the divine order the sun rose up against the father i cannot phone could flick dylan out it

was a generational conflict that was relatively rare in the history behind middle ages but which forced all their contemporaries to take sides in this conflict between father and son between the old and the new order and annoying siegel is that. the winner as in all such generational conflicts was the song and he actually tried to rethink and rescue the salient monarchy that ended at the fact that he ended up exercising power just like his father did is the particular tragedy of henry the 5th and it marks the gradual end of the salient period in the german empire in the doesn't have high demise. the times were changing informs as well and it was here that the last salient emperor played an early part in bringing about a new social order. alongside the clergy a new group was growing in society one which had not been reckoned with the middle class its growing economic power soon was something neither the emperors nor the

church could ignore. the vorm city archive has a 12th century document and example of charters that were being issued more and more frequently these so-called freedom charter granted rights to common citizens these of the the bishop and the aristocracy. the increasingly self-confident citizenry began to be seen by kings as useful allies to be fostered the bishops may have still been the town moves but they couldn't object if the emperor set his seal on it. the folk at the view of all the document was issued out of order i'm cv i'm valma sencion that is for the benefits of the citizens of borneo see that the story of main content of the middle part release the tax burden it expands the rights of the citizenry that was forming it improves opportunities for economic development and it clarifies

ambiguities about certain levies in dakar or what's important is that all this granting of privileges takes place in consensus with all those who have power over the citizens of this and how we can see that here in the formulation of those who have used at protest over the c.v.s. pharmacy and said in other words it is taking care of the no one can say off to its oh i didn't know and i object above all and this is very important it is the bishop as the lord of the town who appears here is a proponent of along with other persons clerical unworldly who in some way have claims on the citizen and. the romanesque are becoming more and more churches of the people and there for science were changing too soon appearing in gothic rayment and not only that. the facade of

cathedral has an amusing popular stone figure one that originated in the middle class 20th century. just enough to wrists who come here always ask 1st about the cathedral docks and where is it but it's at the entrance portal to do you know master builder in the last century any pond who carried out renovations on the cathedral in the 1920 s. left a memorial to his pet dogs and. there are a lot of different versions of the story but at the core of it is that the docks and somehow saved his life leaving that. we'll let that cathedral story from the early 20th century tell itself.

but master builder brandt's rescued by his docks on is not the only animal story that forms cathedral has to tell the other one leads straight back to the middle ages showing an ape delousing the medieval master builder. the scene is a 1000 years old and it is the only known depiction of a romanesque architect. there

are plenty of stories of emperors and bishops and the battles of the powerful but the roman s cathedral builders are hidden in the shadows of history. they are the ones whose spirit and hands made all the structures that we admire today. their rivalry to create churches that were ever lovelier larger godly or how exciting it must have been. a contest over the wealth of forms over the many possibilities of hewing ever new things out of sandstone. it was a contest of the imagination that never came to an end that's human nature what was

yesterday shall be different tomorrow. the rigor of romanesque building began to wear down. the idea of thick walls like fortresses of judging toward heaven structures of imposing solidity and architectural defiance. soon to give way. to a new more expansive style. the gothic devoted to a different ideal. white. oh.

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