A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 210
es themonks, and especially the Benedictines, werethe builders of Europe, which was bestrewnwith their churches. Isolated and self-depend-ent, they gathered about them great coni)ianiesof workmen, whom tlicy organized into regularschools or guilds, and among whom the art ofbuilding jjrogressed very… … ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE: CATHhDHAL (Jl- bPI<,\ ER (SPIRE): INTERIOR, IKw 1100;LATEST ROMANESQUE, CONTEMPORARY WITH THE EARLY GOTHIC OF FRANCE. 326 326 ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE eleventh and twelfth centuries the monks werethe chief guardians of literature and the arts
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