. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. CHAPTER II THE EARLY CHRISTIAN STYLE THE IV century marks an epoch of transition in Romanhistory — a time when the old order changes and givesplace to new. During the preceding fifty years decline had beensteadily progressing, and while the barbarians had been gather-ing against the frontiers in ever-increasing force, the militarypower of the Empire had been wasted in an endless successionof civil broils between rival claimants to the imperial to the miseries of war, were those of mis
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. CHAPTER II THE EARLY CHRISTIAN STYLE THE IV century marks an epoch of transition in Romanhistory — a time when the old order changes and givesplace to new. During the preceding fifty years decline had beensteadily progressing, and while the barbarians had been gather-ing against the frontiers in ever-increasing force, the militarypower of the Empire had been wasted in an endless successionof civil broils between rival claimants to the imperial to the miseries of war, were those of tyrants were followed by only five good , at the very end of the III century there came a periodof comparative calm. The Empire, grasped for a moment inthe firm hand of Diocletian (284-305), enjoyed a brief era ofhope and prosperity, an era that was reflected in art, and espe-cially in architecture, by the dawning of a great revival — arenaissance, which, although the swan song of Rome, producedmonuments, lacking perhaps in technique, but unequaled forori
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