Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 54
in all Europe, reforming monasti-cism, purging the Papacy, wrenching the fangs offeudalism and secular control from the throatof the Church, restoring education, art, and cul-ture, while indirectly assisting in the emanci-pation of the laborers and merchants and makingpossible the guilds and the… … BEGINNINGS OF GOTHIC ART opening out of religion and its wide adaptationto the needs and the instincts of men. Duringthe patristic period, whether in the East or theWest, the constructive work in the developingand fixing of dogma had been largely intellectual.It was concerned primarily with…
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