Author: Charles Eliot Norton

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780331507164

Excerpt from Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence Chief among these uniting influences was Christian ity. For it not only subjected all believers, whatever their difference of race and custom, to a common rule of interior life, bringing all under one universally ac knowledged, supreme authority, but it also filled their imaginations with common hopes and fears, and sup plied their understandings with common conceptions of the universe, of the origin and order of the world, and of the destiny of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.