Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 211
rivileges were granted to municipal corporations,as a sort of equipoise to the power and ambition ofthe nobles. Thus enfranchised, as it were, citiesformed commercial centres, whose burghers rapidlyincreased in wealth, while trade-guilds and othercorporations rose rapidly in importance. Thesevied… … HOTEL DE VILLE AT BRUGES. Gothic Architecture. 191 Guild, and remarkable as one of the best specimensof fan-shaped vaulting, the vaults being supportedby two rows of richly polished granite columns,which divide the hall into three aisles. The sidevaults rest outwardly upon projecting corbels. Most…
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