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laby-reims
Why Reims ?
The best-known medieval labyrinth is the
Chartres labyrinth.
It has been on the floor of the Chartres cathedral
since around the year 1200.
Its design had been in manuscripts for several centuries before that.
It is about 42 ft (13 m) across.
It is the only subsisting large medieval floor labyrinth.
The other labyrinth, somewhat unknown and neglected, is the Reims labyrinth.
It was inlaid into the Reims cathedral floor some 50 years after the Chartres labyrinth.
It was destroyed in 1778.
We know it through a drawing made before its destruction.
There is no known previous manuscript version of it.
It is very important for me
because it brought me,
through a comparative study with the Chartres labyrinth,
to develop a
of the medieval labyrinth,
based on its rhythmical structure.
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