Building the Medieval World National Hispanic Heritage Month Selected as a Holiday Book

Selected as a Holiday Book for 2007 by the New York Times Book Review

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Building the Medieval World National Hispanic Heritage Month Selected as a Holiday BookChristine Sciacca Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals and grand castles and palaces. While many of these edifices survive, many more are lost, and it is within the pages of illuminated manuscripts that we often find the best record of the appearance of these amazing buildings. This volume illustrates the creative ways in which medieval artists represented