Word: carolingian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle did not disguise his grand Carolingian design for a Europe dominated by the two nations. France and Germany, he emphasized, must urgently "reinforce their solidarity." Said he: "If we have put aside our quarrels and strife, it is not in order to doze. From this reconciliation we must fashion a common source of power, influence and deeds. L'union, pourquoi...
...height, the Romanesque style was at once contemplative and violent; it coincided with feudalism, the most static of societies, and with the fever of the first Crusaders. It rose out of the ruins of the Roman and Carolingian empires-a fragmented world that wanted unity and found it in the church. From all over Christendom, pilgrims traveled the road to Santiago, where legend has it that the body of St. James-the saint whose spirit 37 times helped the Spaniards ward off the Moors-lies buried. There, about 1080,along "pilgrimage road," a church was begun...
...publishing ventures have been more ambitious. The next volumes will range from Assyria to the post-Carolingian art that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched...