2021年4月21日 · I understand your question, but there wasn't a pure "cathedral style", in the Middle Ages, in Western Europe, after the 1000AD, we got mostly the Romanesque and the Gothic, so yes, all or almost all the Churches in that period were built in those styles, or have features with those styles, even if often a mix of them as new features were added to the …

2022年7月17日 · Am I correct in saying most European Castles and Cathederals are made of stone - most likely limestone? Brick seems to have been a perfectly viable alternative. As shown by the brick gothic style found most typically in northern Germany and the Baltic. Brick Gothic - Wikipedia Brick seems...

2021年4月21日 · The cathedrals in the Lutheran areas of Germany are officially former cathedrals like those in Scotland. The Church of Sweden, Church of Denmark, and Church of Ireland (with a tiny membership) all have bishops and cathedrals.

2014年10月28日 · The Second Vatican Council itself made no changes, and celebrants are still supposed to face the east, even in the ordinary expression of the Roman rite (according to the instruction of the missal).

2022年7月17日 · I'm trying to compare castles in the medieval era against medieval seige weapons, Counter weight trebuchets and early bombard cannons, with stone shot. To me Malbrok castle stands out as performing very well against bombardment, at a time that stone castles were being pulverised in France at...

2014年9月13日 · Gothic cathedrals, on the other hand, have huge interior chambers (up to 160ft high and 500+ ft long), along with other technical features that make them much more impressive as feats of engineering (e.g. the enormous windows and near total lack of supporting walls in Churches like Amiens). Salisbury Cathedral, England.

2007年10月28日 · Cathedrals were considered the centers for learning for much of the medieval period. What learning that was taking place was most likely coming from the "Christian" point of view. Since Christian "learning" was the only game in town, I would think that the Church would grow immensely powerful.

2017年8月26日 · The exception were the Romans, but they had the roads and slaves to source rock deposits, and transport the items, since most Roman cities and towns were built of stone. The Anglo-Saxons and Normans couldn't do this, so they only built the most important sites (palaces, burhs, castles, and churches/cathedrals) in stone.

2020年11月2日 · I've made digital reconstructions of castles, cathedrals and monasteries for several years as a hobby. I've always been fascinated by The Middle Ages for as long as I can remember. But one ruin has caught my special attention: The Hald Ruin in Denmark or - as it was formerly known - Hald Castle.

2021年4月16日 · The Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Congo is the name given to an old Catholic church built at the end of the 15th century in the capital of the Kingdom of the Congo, it was one of the first Catholic cathedrals in sub-Saharan Africa and in what is now known as Angola.