Essay Archive - The Gothic Age
The Gothic Age
As the third year that followed the year on thousand grew near, there
was to be seen over almost all the earth, but especially in Italy and in Gaul, a
great renewal of church buildings; each Christian community was driven by a
spirit of rivalry to have a more glorious church than the others. It was as if
the world had shaken itself, and casting off its old garments, had dressed
itself again in every part in a white robe of churches.
Raoul Glaber, Historia, c.1003
The Gothic Age (c. AD 1130-1530) marked the end to an age of chaos,
primarily ca....
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