The West: From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation

by Christopher Tadgell

Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the evolution of the Gothic which heralded new, structurally daring architecture. The book ends with the Italian rediscovery of classical ideas and ideals and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415407540
• ISBN13: 9780415407540
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 924 Pages
• Weight: 4.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.4" x 8.6"