Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 378
minence; trade and com-merce flourished; wealth was vastly increased. The quickenedintellectual life, the feeling of civic pride, increased nationalprosperity, comparative peace — all these are reflected in thebuildings of the XI century. But in 1076 began the momentous struggle of Empire… … THE LOMBARDS AND THE PAPACY Concordat of Worms in 1122. For the history of architecturethe significant thing about this struggle is the fact that, althoughending in a nominal compromise, it was, in the main, a losingstruggle for the Empire. Consequently it was a losing strugglefor the Lombard…
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