The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 366
aith lost its intensity, Artoccupied itself more and more with princely and lordly habitations.The middh class was the last favoured by this progress, and the feelingof their ])osition as citizens had taken the place of a zeal exclusively pious;80 we find the town-halls* absorbing the splendour and… … Fig. 205.—Ancient Castle ol Marcoussis, near RambouiUet. ^Thirteenth Century.) Everywhere, during the Middle Ages, rose the church.—the home ofpeace; but everywhere also towered up at the same time the castle, thatcharacterised the permanent state of war in which feudal society lived,delighted, and…
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