The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 459
nce as law-courts and places of assembly for tradesmen and money-changers, and were generally composed of one immense hall, with lateralgalleries and tribunes adjoining it. The name of basilica, derived from theGreek word basileus (a king), was given them, according to some writers,from the fact… … Fig. 295.—Basilica of Constantine, at Treves, transformed into a Fortress in the Middle Ages. whence the edifice was called stoa basilike (royal porch), a designation ofwhich the Romans preserved only the adjective, the substantive beingunderstood. The Christian basilica, says M. Vaudoyer, in his…
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