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The book is strictly architectural in focus, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg makes no attempt to portray medieval society but examines the churches and castles such a society required. A span of seven centuries, starting with the early builders of medieval towns (8th–9th century), through the impact of Gregorian Reform upon the realm of ...
David Macaulay (born 2 December 1946) [1] is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016).
History books about the Middle Ages (2 C, 30 P) C. ... Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages; D. Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources; L.
Cabin Porn (book) Cambridge (book) Castle (Macaulay book) Cathedral (children's book) Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages; Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art; A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge; The Classical Language of Architecture; A Clearing in the Distance ...
The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read, a 2003 survey with the goal of finding the "nation's best-loved book". [1] The book was selected in the United States for Oprah's Book Club in 2007. It is the first published book in Follett's Kingsbridge Series. Three sequels and a prequel, each set in Kingsbridge during a different century ...
The Cathedral: The Social and Architectural Dynamics of Construction; Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages Alain Erlande-Brandenburg (2 August 1937 in Luxeuil (Haute-Saône) – 6 June 2020, Paris) was a French art historian and honorary general curator for heritage, a specialist on Gothic and Romanesque art .
The castle is fictional, but the historical context is real. Macaulay places its construction in North West Wales between 1283 and 1288, when Edward I of England was in fact building a string of castles to help his conquest of that land, a long-term strategy which involved the English establishing an irremovable presence in Wales over generations until they are gradually accepted by the native ...
Cathedral: The Story of its Construction is an illustrated book written by David Macaulay. Published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the author's first book. Cathedral tells the story of the construction of a great medieval cathedral using pen-and-ink drawings. [1] [2] It won the 1975 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for children's non ...