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The historical work of the Premonstratensian canon Robert of Auxerre († 1211) was one of the most influential of medieval chronicles. Vincent of Beauvais († 1264) borrowed heavily from it in Speculum historiale, the final section of his great encyclopedia. The content of the Auxerre chronicle, extant in its independent version in relatively few manuscripts, thus contributed to an essential element in the textual foundation of later medieval education. The shape of Robert's narrative, however, differed from that of Vincent's treatment of history. The canon of Auxerre wrote in an old genre and for a traditional end. His was the kind of monastic chronicle that had for centuries affirmed for Benedictine and reform congregations their connection to venerable tradition, and traced for them the workings of providence in time. Vincent's work, on the other hand, set the record of human experience alongside compendia about the divine and natural worlds. It thus represented the historiographical fulfillment of the thirteenth century's ambition to systematize knowledge.
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In 1832 the west façade of the 12th-century church of the Premonstratensian abbey of Saint-Yved at Braine was demolished. Today the original form of the Gothic west façade is not known because all the documents representing Saint-Yved prior to the demolition of 1832 are either imprecise or incomplete. Nevertheless, modern scholarship has accepted 19th-century reconstructions based on this faulty documentation. In 1971, the site of the demolished façade was excavated and its physical remains were discovered. The excavation proved the necessity of referring to the façade's extant stones, not to 19th-century documents, in order to determine the precise measurements of the church. The following study provides a method whereby the groundplan and the elevation of the old façade of Saint-Yved and its three portals can be reconstructed. The method consists of first measuring the two parts of the façade that are extant: the remains in situ that were excavated in 1971; and the stones of the central Coronation Portal, measured before the portal was rebuilt inside the church in 1970. These dimensions provide a framework for the next step, which is to use architectural elements that exist elsewhere at Saint-Yved to substitute for missing parts of the façade. This method makes use of the fact that solids and voids at Saint-Yved have standardized dimensions which appear throughout the building. Finally, documents which reproduce Saint-Yved prior to the 1832 demolition are used as guides in reconstructing the façade whenever they correspond to actual dimensions of the church.
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