Gothic Churches

This class we will go over some of the Medieval charges. Then we will have a self guided tour. For your own tour, here is a link to a virtual tour of Notre Dame cathedral, a Gothic church built in the Middle ages, about a thousand years ago. Here is a link to multiple pictures of multiple Gothic Churches from the Middle Ages. What makes a church Gothic? Why so high, so many windows? Why flying buttresses and gargoyles? What is a relic?