The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 443
once as law-courts and places of assembly for tradesmen and money-changers, and were generally composed of one immense hall, with latéralgalleries and tribunes adjoining it. The name of badlica, derived from theGreek word basUeus (a king), was given them, according to some writers,from the fact… … Fig, 295.—Basilica of Constantine, at Trêves, transfornicd into a Fortress in the Jliddle Ages. whence the édifice was called sfoa basiliké (royal porch), a désignation etwhich the Eomans preserved only the adjective, the substantive beingunderstood. The Christian basilica, sajs M. A^audoyer, in…
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