Word: carolingian
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...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...
...land" that students often skip. Europeans don't have the American passion for breaking down history into blocks by country and era: "We don't study French history; we study history." Not used to general survey courses, Perroy is having considerable trouble compressing the whole Carolingian Empire into three weeks...
...replace it. Minuscule never vanished entirely. In time, Gothic became so intricate that papal bulls were almost illegible, and each was usually sent out from the Vatican chancery accompanied by a duplicate written in another hand. The writing used for the translation was merely a variation on the Carolingian theme-the slanting chancery calligraphy of men like Ludovico degli Arrighi...
Professor Rand taught courses dealing with every phase of Latin--classical literature, philosophy of the middle ages, and even paleography. His great research in the field of paleography (ancient scripts) brought a new light to the reforms of the Carolingian Renaissance and his famous book on the writings of St. Martin of Tours still stands as the definitive work on the great French monk...