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A History of English Architecture: 410-2013

A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300 by Professor Simon Thurley. During the thirteenth century Jerusalem supplanted Rome as the inspiration for English architecture. Huge national wealth led to an outburst of building of great creativity and individuality. The new gothic style which emerged by the 1220s was a national style for England creating some of the most remarkable buildings in European history.
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A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300


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1. Making England: The Shadow of Rome, 410-1130
2. A New Jerusalem: Reaching for Heaven, 1130-1300
3. How the Middle Ages Were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408
4. How the Middle Ages Were Built: Coming of Age, 1408-1530
5. The End of the Old World Order, 1530-1650
6. The Rise of Consensus, 1650-1760
7. Engine House, 1760-1830
8. On Top of the World, 1830-1914
9. Building the Victorian City: Splendour and Squalor
10. English Architecture and the First World War
11. Forwards and Backwards Architecture in Inter-War England
12. Coming to Terms with Modern Times: English Architecture in the Post War Era