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== References == {{reflist|refs= <ref name="American Heritage Dictionary">{{Cite book |author = Houghton Mifflin |author-link = Houghton Mifflin |title = The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |edition = 4th |publisher = Houghton Mifflin |year = 2000 |location = Boston and New York |pages = [https://archive.org/details/americanheritage0000unse_a1o7/page/725 725] |url = https://archive.org/details/americanheritage0000unse_a1o7/page/725 |isbn = 978-0-395-82517-4 }}</ref> <ref name="Benton 1997">{{cite book | last = Benton | first = Janetta Rebold | title = Holy Terrors: Gargoyles on Medieval Buildings | publisher = Abbeville Press | year = 1997 | isbn = 978-0-7892-0182-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XlBjQgAACAAJ }}</ref> <ref name="Bridaham 1930 p. xii">{{cite book | last = Bridaham | first = L.B. | title = Gargoyles, Chimères, and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture | publisher = Architectural Book Publishing Company, Incorporated | year = 1930 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yRcaAQAAMAAJ | page = xii }}</ref> <ref name="British Archaeological Association 1939 p. 361">{{cite book | author = British Archaeological Association | title = The Archaeological Journal | publisher = Royal Archaeological Institute. | issue = v. 95 | year = 1939 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CTspAAAAYAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 361 | quote = During the Merovingian period Rouen occupies a prominent place in the long struggle between Fredegonde and Brunhilda, which culminated in the brutal murder of Bishop Pretextatus in his own cathedral. To the seventh ... The former's legendary victory over the monster Gargouille led to the well-known privilege of the Chapter of releasing a condemned criminal every Ascension Day. Charlemagne ... }}</ref> <ref name="Butler Thurston Attwater 1956 p. 183">{{cite book | last1 = Butler | first1 = A. | last2 = Thurston | first2 = H. | last3 = Attwater | first3 = D. | title = Lives of the Saints | publisher = Kenedy | issue = v. 4 | date = 1956 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sFDZAAAAMAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 183 | quote = ST ROMANUS, Bishop of Rouen (c. a.d. 640) Not much that is certainly authentic is known of this bishop. ... The legend is that this privilege took its rise from St Romanus killing a great serpent, called Gargouille, with the assistance of a ... }}</ref> <ref name="Cipa 2009">{{cite book | last = Cipa | first = S. | title = Carving Gargoyles Grotesques, and Other Creatures of Myth: History, Lore, and 12 Artistic Patterns | publisher = Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-1-56523-329-4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=nRIvvgAACAAJ }}</ref> <ref name="Clarke Engelbach 1930">{{cite book | last1 = Clarke | first1 = S. | last2 = Engelbach | first2 = R. | title = Ancient Egyptian Construction and Architecture | publisher = [[Dover Publications]] | series = Dover books on Egypt | year = 1930 | isbn = 978-0-486-26485-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=L0Uiat5EAaMC }}</ref> <ref name="Di Renzo 1995 p. 1">{{cite book | last = Di Renzo | first = A. | title = American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque | publisher = Southern Illinois University Press | year = 1995 | isbn = 978-0-8093-2030-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ES5eiv2VgzkC&pg=PA1 | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 1 }}</ref> <ref name="Dinsmoor Anderson 1950">{{cite book | last1 = Dinsmoor | first1 = W.B. | last2 = Anderson | first2 = W.J. | title = The Architecture of Ancient Greece: An Account of Its Historic Development | publisher = Biblo and Tannen | year = 1950 | isbn = 978-0-8196-0283-1 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BqahvzeE39YC }}</ref> <ref name="Fudgé 2016 p. 91">{{cite book | last = Fudgé | first = T.A. | title = Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages | publisher = Palgrave Macmillan US | series = The New Middle Ages | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-1-137-56610-2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KO5NDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 91 }}</ref> <ref name="Hargreaves 1990 p. 51">{{cite book | last = Hargreaves | first = J. | title = Hargreaves New Illustrated Bestiary | publisher = Gothic Image Publications | year = 1990 | isbn = 978-0-906362-12-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=64vfAAAAMAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 51 | quote = The word Gargoyle is derived from 'La Gargouille'—the name of an immense dragon who lived in the river Seine at Rouen. The word Gargouille comes from the word for a throat, and gargle is derived from the same source. La Gargouille was ... }}</ref> <ref name="Herbermann Pace Pallen Shahan 1913 p. 209">{{cite book | last1 = Herbermann | first1 = C.G. | last2 = Pace | first2 = E.A. | last3 = Pallen | first3 = C.B. | last4 = Shahan | first4 = T.J. | last5 = Wynne | first5 = J.J. | last6 = MacErlean | first6 = A.A. | title = The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church | publisher = Robert Appleton company | issue = v. 13 | year = 1913 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4m0sAAAAIAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 209 | quote = St. Romanus (631–641) former chancellor of Clotaire II; legend relates how he delivered the environs of Rouen from a monster called Gargouille, having ... }}</ref> <ref name="Hodder 1881 p. 46">{{cite book | last = Hodder | first = E. | title = Cities of the world | issue = v. 2 | year = 1881 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xC8BAAAAQAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 46 | quote = The bishop put a leash round its neck, and the criminal led the Gargouille into Rouen, where, amidst the acclamations of the ... And so once a year, on Ascension Day, until the time of the Revolution, the chapter used to select a condemned ... }}</ref> <ref name="Holy Horrors">{{Cite journal | title = Holy Horrors | journal = The National Trust Magazine | date = Autumn 2007 | pages = 66–68 }}</ref> <ref name="Hourihane 2012 p. 642">{{cite book | last = Hourihane | first = C. | title = The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture | publisher = OUP USA | issue = v. 1 | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-0-19-539536-5 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FtlMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA642 | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 642 }}</ref> <ref name="Leclercq 1963">{{cite book | title = Tractatus et opuscula | publisher = Editiones Cistercienses | location = Rome | editor-last = Leclercq | editor-first = Jean | editor2-last = Rochais | editor2-first = H.M. | volume = 3 | chapter = Apologia ad Guillelmum abbatem | series = S. Bernardi Opera | year = 1963 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mB7ZAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR10 | language = la }}</ref> <ref name="Merriam-Webster 2015">{{cite web | title = Word of the Day: Gargoyle | website = Merriam-Webster | date = September 5, 2015 | url = https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/gargoyle-2015-09-05 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170624191852/https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/gargoyle-2015-09-05 | archive-date = June 24, 2017 | url-status = live | access-date = May 11, 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="Nathan 1961 p. 74">{{cite book | last = Nathan | first = W.L. | title = Art and the Message of the Church | publisher = Westminster Press | series = Westminster studies in Christian communication | year = 1961 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eMefAAAAMAAJ | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 74 }}</ref> <ref name="Online Etymology Dictionary">{{cite web | title = gargle | website = Origin and meaning of gargle by Online Etymology Dictionary | url = https://www.etymonline.com/word/gargle | access-date = May 11, 2018 }}</ref> <ref name="Swaddling 1980">{{cite book | last = Swaddling | first = J. | title = The ancient Olympic Games | publisher = Published for the trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780714120027 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5tTfAAAAMAAJ }}</ref> <ref name="Tschen-Emmons 2015 p. 72">{{cite book | last = Tschen-Emmons | first = J.B. | title = Artifacts from Medieval Europe | publisher = ABC-CLIO | series = Daily Life through Artifacts | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-1-61069-622-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=K78oBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 72 }}</ref> <ref name="Varner 2008">{{cite book | last = Varner | first = G.R. | title = Gargoyles, Grotesques & Green Men: Ancient Symbolism in European and American Architecture | publisher = Lulu.com | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-1-4357-1142-6 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VYQIOw8HU0sC }}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}</ref>{{self-published inline|date=February 2020}} <ref name="Weinstock 2016 p. 248">{{cite book | last = Weinstock | first = J.A. | title = The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters | publisher = Taylor & Francis | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-1-317-04426-0 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PHbeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA248 | access-date = May 11, 2018 | page = 248 }}</ref> <ref name="Willemsen 1959">{{cite book | last = Willemsen | first = F. | title = Die Löwenkopf-Wasserspeier Vom Dach des Zeustempels | publisher = de Gruyter | location = Berlin | series = Olympische Forschungen | year = 1959 | volume = 4 | isbn = 978-3-11-003144-7 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=CZxvcgAACAAJ | language = de }}</ref> }}
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