Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Medieval

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral--one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe--is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral's art and architecture.

Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within...

Der Garten des Fursten Orsini hat alles: Abenteuer, Geheimnisse, Monster, Fabelwesen, wunderschone Gottinnen, halb oder ganz nackt, an zauberhaften und unheimlichen Orten. Ein erlesen verfuhrerisches Sammelsurium aus antiker Weisheit und verbotenen zeitgenossischen Quellen. Seinerzeit war der Garten, der nur sich selbst und nichts anderem gleicht," als Aufstand gegen das Establishment beruchtigt, und noch heute sind Vicinos geistvolle Zoten dazu angetan, den Einzelnen zur Besinnung zu bringen und von der Tyrannei der Political Correctness zu befreien.

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Arthur S. Turberville details the Vatican's doctrine underlying the violent Roman Inquisition, which was used to suppress all opponents to the Roman Catholic Church's well-established religion. This book is not a detailed history of the Inquisition, but rather an excellent survey of literature on the Church's doctrines on this practice.

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral--one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe--is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral's art and architecture.

Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within...