Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 398
first rulers of the new duchy to maketheir province equal with the other fiefs of the Carolingian emperors,and their enthusiastic and self-sacrificing submission to the Church,did not immediately result in an advance of art. The early buildingsof the Normans, mostly of wood, were for a century far… … a Etretat. b Ecrainville.Fig. 217.—Norman Capitals. 0 soon- c Pont-Audemer. chitecture it was necessary to call designers from the South. Oneof these was the before-mentioned William, abbot of St. Benigne inDijon, a Lombard, who was invited to Normandy by the duke Rich-ard II. in 1010, and, during…
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