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- How often were massive medieval cathedrals maintained?
Medieval cathedrals were some of the tallest structures around How often were they cleaned, painted and maintained, especially the taller sections of the exterior?
- Why is Europes Historical Heritage So Much More Impressive?
The Cathedrals of Europe are objectively a more remarkable achievement than any of the Forbidden City, Angkor Wat, The Borobudur Temple Compounds, Attuthaya or Prambana, which all suffer from the same comparative shortcomings - either they are huge compounds of individually unremarkable buildings, or they are huge individual structures that don
- Cathedrals built in the 1500s? | History Forum - historum. com
Cathedrals were mostly city building , paid for by the city the great expansion of the 12th 13th and 14th centuries had slowed down a lot the low countries , the Rhine corridor and Italy were still pretty rich but the rest of Europe was in a bit of a rut Click to expand
- How did gothic architecture increase the power of the Catholic church . . .
The construction of Gothic cathedrals in particular also helped the church keep the productive assets of society organized around its interests The cooperation of so many trades and skilled workers (all guild members) kept the builders of the church at the top of the social ladder
- Church Builders: How the medieval churches were constructed
Hi everyone I recently published my new 3D animated short documentary about medieval church architecture of Northern Europe, with some examples from Denmark It's essentially about "How to build a church" Many of our early churches were made of wood, later they were made of red bricks
- Why do you not prefer American history? | Page 3 | History Forum
American history has its moments certainly, but it is modern history and in contrast represents a tiny fraction of world history When you've got castles and Cathedrals going back 1000 years and Roman roads almost 2000 years it seems one would be overlooking a great deal to discuss something from 1849
- Interesting videos, documents, audios, etc. from the Cold War
Speaking of the Cold War its hard to believe but its true the US military conducted training missions in Iran during the reign of the Shah from sometime after 1953 to 1979 Even post overthrow of the Shah the US sold weapons to Iran during the 1980s and or allowed Israel to use third party transfer of weapons to Iran Iran bordered the Soviet Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan so Iran had a
- Battles That Changed the Balance of Power — Permanently
Replacing all the nobility in the country with foreign ones, building castles and cathedrals throughout the British Isles, causing thousands of Saxon nobility and warriors to emigrate to Byzantium That's a serious affect on everyone I doubt most people knew or noticed the Glorious Revolution Click to expand
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