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Before And After The End Of Time: Architecture And The Year 1000
Editor: Smith, Christine
Paperback; 19 Colour and 48 B&w Illustrations
128 pages
Published: August 2002
Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN: 0807614939

Many people expected the world to end in the year 1000. The Heavenly City of Jerusalem, described in great detail in the Bible, would rise up and become heaven's earthly kingdom. The essaysin this book, the first volume in the Millennium Matters series, explore the contrast between this heavenly architecture and the Romanesque architecture of the period.Smith (architectural history, Harvard Graduate School of Design) curated this intriguing exhibition of medieval architecture, its creation and study, and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, for which this book provides accompanying essays (it's not a full catalog). Three of the essays, on Europeans i



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