Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerPublisher: Medieval Academy of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Medieval French Bridges
Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerPublisher: Medieval Academy of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bridges and mill sites in Medieval France
Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerWorking at the bridge site in late Medieval France
Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerOn the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris
Author: Virginia Wylie EgbertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691039060
Category : Bibliothèque nationale (France). Manuscript (fr.2090-2092)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A 14th-century illuminated manuscript, The Life of St. Denis, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, contains thirty remarkable illustrations of contemporary life as it flourished on the Seine and on the Paris bridges. Virginia Wylie Egbert is the first to focus attention on the bridge scenes in the lower third of the illuminations and to relate them in a systematic way to the social life of the period. In an effort to determine how realistic the bridge scenes are in their portrayal of everyday life, the author has gone to mediaeval writings and documents. Her telling quotations range from peddler's street cries to a description of attempts to reduce pollution in the streets of Paris. In her introduction, Mrs. Egbert gives an account of the manuscript and discusses its style and relationship to a small group of other manuscripts.
The Bridges of Medieval England
Author: David HarrisonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191556793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. David Harrison rewrites their history from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution, providing new insights into many aspects of the subject. Looking at the role of bridges in the creation of a new road system, which was significantly different from its Roman predecessor and which largely survived until the twentieth century, he examines their design. Often built in the most difficult circumstances: broad flood plains, deep tidal waters, and steep upland valleys, they withstood all but the most catastrophic floods. He also investigates the immense efforts put into their construction and upkeep, ranging from the mobilization of large work forces by the old English state to the role of resident hermits and the charitable donations which produced bridge trusts with huge incomes. The evidence presented in The Bridges of Medieval England shows that the network of bridges, which had been in place since the thirteenth century, was capable of serving the needs of the economy on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. This has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications, and bringing to the fore the continuities from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century. This book is essential reading for those interested in architecture, engineering, transport, and economics, and any historian sceptical about the achievements of medieval England.
Water Mills
Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerOld Bridges of France
Author: William EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Gothic Architecture
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230570877
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 59. Chapters: List of medieval bridges in France, List of Brick Gothic buildings, Rood screen, International Gothic, Cistercian architecture, List of Gothic architecture, Tracery, Rayonnant, Manueline, Flying buttress, Gothicmed, Flushwork, St John the Baptist's Church, Mongewell, Pulpitum, Romano-Gothic, St Mary's Church, Newnham Murren, Isabelline Gothic, Cult of Carts, Fieldstone church, Encaustic tile, Flamboyant, Sondergotik, Diamond vault, Lancet window, Rocca Sanvitale, Odd Fellows and Confederate Cemetery, Rocca Flea, Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Lombard band, Wimperg, Brabantine Gothic, Pilier cantonne.
Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great
Author: Venetia BridgesPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.
A Book of Bridges
Author: Frank BrangwynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Sm. thick 4to. Original illustrated cloth. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. With coloured frontpiece, 35 full-page coloured plates, and numerous text drawings. Title page printed in re/black ink.