The monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the renaissance (1908)
Frothingham, Arthur L. (Arthur Lincoln), 1859-1923 · New York, The Macmillan Company · leaf 230
ied. At every point of vantage, at every proper intervalbetween towns, were built watch-towers to guard the roads, MILITARY ARCHITECTURE 219 and to give warning of raids. The chronicle of the great Bene-dictine monastery of Subiaco, which held sway over so manytowns and built so many fortresses, is… … Castle aud Fortifications of Nepi. happened it was largely because of rivalry between the greatfeudal families. But there was one field — that of generalpublic defence — in which we must picture Rome and thePapacy as at once taking the lead and showing the way.There was, for about a century, a…
Art -- Rome · Christian art and symbolism
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