Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 13

Author: Royal Historical Society

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-12-18

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780521830768

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The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume thirteen of the sixth series includes the following articles: Presidential Address: England and the Continent in the ninth century: Vikings and Others; According to ancient custom: the restoration of altars in the Restoration Church of England; Einhard: the sinner and the saints; Migrants, immigrants and welfare from the Old Poor Law to the Welfare State; Jack Tar and the gentleman officer: the role of uniform in shaping the class- and gender-related identities of British naval personnel, 1930-1939; Writing fornication: medieval Leyrwite and its historians; Resistance, reprisal and community in Occupied France, 1941-1944. There is also a themed section which looks at 'Architecture and History'.


Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200

Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200

Author: Kenneth John Conant

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1993-01-01

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780300052985

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Professor Conant's detailed studies of Santiago de Compostela and of the abbey church at Cluny fit him for this account of building in the period of the round arch which preceeded Gothic. In this volume he shows how, at the instigation of the monasteries during the little renaissance of Charlemagne, Roman methods of construction were revived and fused with local traditions to produce a distinctive Carolingian manner; and how such monuments as the Palatine Chapel at Aachen already contained hints of the nobler and more mature Romanesque style which was to become international. professor Conant extends his survey to cover the regions of medieval France, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Land, Italy, Germany, Northern Europe, and Britain.