A History of English Architecture: 410-2013
How the Middle Ages Were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 by Professor Simon Thurley. England's economic success peaked in 1300 amidst a riot of architectural excess and was followed by a series of disasters which lasted much of the fourteenth century. Yet against a catastrophic background English architectural individualism flourished and out of radically changed social structures an architectural consensus emerged.
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How the Middle Ages Were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 |
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