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...serve to concentrate the weight of the vault at certain points, making it possible to eliminate the wall between these points. 5. Duomo is the Florence Cathedral. 6. “Book of Hours” 7. Maesta refers to the “majesty” of the Madonna. People: 1. Abbot Suger was a Benedictine monk and politician that served as an advisor to successive kings of France and was even regent of the county during the Second Crusade. 2. St. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar that effected a synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy and Catholic religious thought. 3. Duns Scotus was a Franciscan friar and a Scotsman that studied at Oxford and Paris. 4. William of Ockham was a Franciscan friar and an Englishman who also studied at Oxford. 5. Frances of Assisi believed that real freedom demanded complete poverty and is said to have suffered stigmata. 6. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet who wrote The Divine Comedy. 7. Nocola Pisano was a sculptor that reintroduced a classical style through his Nativity....