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Introduction
- Home page
- The idea of the labyrinth
- What's new on this site
- Rhythm
The Medieval labyrinth
- Introduction to the Medieval labyrinth
- Labyreims - Why Reims?
- Comparison Reims-Chartres
- Chartres: floor
- Chartres: script
- Reims: floor
- Reims: script
- The St-Omer labyrinth
- Heiric of Auxerre - I
- Heiric of Auxerre - II
- Otfrid of Weissemburg
- The boustrophedon
- Changing a Chartres labyrinth into a Sens labyrinth
- The supposed uniqueness of the Chartres labyrinth
- A mathematical notation method for Medieval labyrinths
The Roman labyrinth
The Cretan labyrinth
- The Cretan labyrinth
- Cretan: geometric
  ("seed pattern" method)
- Cretan: manual
  ("long line" method)
  - Tracing: table
  - Tracing: animation
- Methods of tracing the Cretan labyrinth
- The Dance of the labyrinth
- The Pima labyrinth
The St-Michael's labyrinth
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The rhythmical structure
of the Medieval labyrinth
- The rhythmical secret
- The cover page
- Contents
- Revision
- The text (2nd edition)
- The canonical labyrinths
- Combinatory tables
- Examples
  - No 1 (historical Sens)
  - No 2 (new)
  - No 3 (historical Chartres)
  - No 4 (historical Reims)
  - No 6 (new)
  - No 8 (new)
  - No 9 (new)
  - No 20 (new)
Particular topics
- The notion of circuit
- The notion of canonical labyrinth
- The spelling of the name Reims and others
- The 28-day lunar cycle and the "lunations" of the Chartres labyrinth
- The influence of the Roman labyrinth in the invention of the Medieval labyrinth
- The medieval "christianization" of the labyrinth
- Is the labyrinth an archetype?
- The engraver's lateral inversion
- Villard de Honnecourt and the mirror-image of the Chartres labyrinth
- Eric of Auxerre's 860 labyrinth
- Theological notes
Discussions with Robert Ferré, Willem Kuipers,
Tony Phillips and Jeff Saward
The author
- Presentation
- Publications
References
Local information (Québec, in French)