Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 46
e, decline of religious zeal, or change inbehef, these are some of the popular reasons for this archi-tectural degeneracy. Strange as it may seem none of thesehave had so powerful an influence as the invention of print-ing. The first printing-press was made in the middle ofthe XV centur)^,—after… … THE DELICATE CHOIR OF SAINT-NAZAIRE. —CARCASSOXXE. The South of France. 25 Cathedrals were not only places of worship, they were thepeoples religious libraries where literature was cut in stone. In the North, the most unique form of this literature wasthe drama of the Breton Calvaries, which…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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