Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 446
vilization;what they could not carry off as plunder they destroyed. Nor do matters seem to have greatly improved when thebrigandage of the pirates became in a sense legalized, and whenin the guise of a fief the province we now know as Normandywas bestowed by the powerless emperor on the conquering… … Iix. 120. — Plan of St. Ceneri. (,From Ruprich-Roberl) the savage invaders. Rollo, it is true, as early as 912, embracedChristianity, at least in name. This move, however, seems tohave been purely political in purpose, and to have modifiednot in the least either the morals or the nature of the king…
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