A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 54. Fic. 5r>. — Ground plan of an Enslish non-jon or Keep (Rochester) of the twelfthcentury. A. Front edifice. B. Largeroom with two needle windows in niches,two places for beds, /) and ;, and a pas-sage-way, a leading under the draw-bridge. C. Soutliern room with fourneedle windows in niches, and fourplaces for beds (A-, t, /, m). /. Spiralstaircase. (From Jahns.) which were in harmony with the artistic idiosyncrasies of the Ger-man, French, and Norman peoples. As an ItaUan creation of theperiod,


A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 54. Fic. 5r>. — Ground plan of an Enslish non-jon or Keep (Rochester) of the twelfthcentury. A. Front edifice. B. Largeroom with two needle windows in niches,two places for beds, /) and ;, and a pas-sage-way, a leading under the draw-bridge. C. Soutliern room with fourneedle windows in niches, and fourplaces for beds (A-, t, /, m). /. Spiralstaircase. (From Jahns.) which were in harmony with the artistic idiosyncrasies of the Ger-man, French, and Norman peoples. As an ItaUan creation of theperiod, we have the Cathedral of St. Mark in Venice. The stormyscenes of succeeding ages have spared comparatively few specimensof secular architecture. But not only in regard to literature and architecture was thecentury of the war of the investiture dominated by the spirit of theChurch of Rome, which ruled equallj- over the realm of science, nowalso became a slave of the church. This epoch brought forth scho-lasticism, which almost longer than the church itself has held domin-ion over th


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