The Gothic art‚ is a typically bourgeois and citizen art‚ which marks the end of feudalism and the renewal of the urban world and the world of trade and craft workshops. At the beginning‚ in France‚ it had specific characteristic too different to Romanesque. Such as: church were considered place where heaven touches earth for this reason buildings fill of light as a box of light. That was possible because they used pointed arch‚ ribbed vaults‚ flying buttresses‚ and so on. The main characteristics
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apologies: how do people apologize in English and Catalan cultures? Marta Martínez Montoya Meritxell Sellarés Puig Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. The speech act of apologising 3 3. The Catalan apology forms 5 4. The English apology forms 8 5. Catalan vs. English apology strategies 10 5.1 Similarities 5.2 Differences 6. Discussion 12 7. Conclusion 12 8. Bibliography 12 9. Appendix 13 1. Introduction The aims of this paper are
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Now known as Istanbul‚ Byzantium played a very big part in architectural history. Its people‚ the Byzantines‚ developed some of the main architectural features that we still see today. They‚ although originally developed in Rome‚ are renowned for their development of the basilica‚ and their use of domes and alabaster‚ among many other things‚ such as religious depictions and silken textile. A basilica is a building typically used for Christian devotion. It is a rectangular‚ building‚ with colonnades
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APUSH Key Terms Ch. 25 1. Jane Addams the founder of Hull House‚ which provided English lessons for immigrants‚ daycares‚ and child care classes 2. Florence Kelley reformer who worked to prohibit child labor and to improve conditions for female workers 3. Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910) 4. Walter Rauschenbusch New York clergyman who preached the social gospel‚ worked to alleviate poverty‚ and worked to make peace between employers and labor unions. 5
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Romanesque and Gothic Architecture of Medieval Europe The world around us is built up by influences from many different places in our pasts: whether that may be from the Italian Renaissance or Marilyn Monroe‚ every piece of history has shaped the way we view our world‚ and how we will continue to grow and shape alongside it. With Christianity and the immense sense of renewed spirituality spreading across Western Europe‚ architecture‚ politics‚ and technological advancements would never be the same
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Gothic architecture was born of Romanesque architecture altered by the influence of medieval society. Romanesque and Gothic architecture‚ although having many similarities‚ also have many differences. There are some who would regard the first Gothic churches in France as late extensions of the Romanesque building ’boom.’’The Romanesque contributed greatly to the development of highly articulated‚ expressive exterior and interior design.’(K Conant p. 6) French Romanesque architecture was the antecedent
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The author attempts to prove that the pre-Romanesque relief on the facade of the parish church of St George in Keutschach (Hodiše) in Austrian Carinthia is a depiction of the Orion constellation. He justifies his theory with historical and art-historical facts. The main emphasis is laid on the fact that traces of late Classical astral mythologisation and deification are also recognisable in the Slovenian folk tradition. The relief‚ which is carved into a damaged plate of white limestone of irregular
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Old English (450-1100 AD) Old English was the language the invading Germanic Tribes spoke in Britain. Old English did not sound or look like English today. Nevertheless‚ about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English were derived from Old English words. Some example of words taken from Old English are be‚ strong and water. Old English was popular until around 1100. When the Romans withdrew from England in the early 5th century‚ they left a political vacuum. The Celts of
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The development of financial management and control in monastic houses and estates in England c. 1200 – 1540 most people assume that Monasteries in the middle ages where a place for monks that took religious vows and give there life to god‚ the monastery in the middle ages were also the centre of the community and wielded power in the community. There was several different types of monasteries from the Benedictine monks‚ Cistercian monks to the Cluniac monks and they all had different set of rules
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“Gothic settings are desolate‚ alienating and full of menace”. In the light of this comment‚ consider some of the ways in which writers use settings in the gothic texts you have read. In ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’‚ Carter and Bronte conform to the gothic conventions with desolate and alienating settings that are full of menace‚ but there are also elements that subvert this view and portray purity and entrapment; the need to escape the gothic mould. A desolate setting is a place
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