The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 461
faith lost its intensity, Artoccupied itself more and more with princely and lordly habitations.The middle class was the last favoured by this progress, and the feelingof their position as citizens had taken the place of a zeal exclusively pious ;so we find the town-haUs absorbing the splendour and… … ARCHITECTURE. 397 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 gloried. The castles of the richest and most powerful…
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