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Ralph Adams Cram. Heart of Europe
Heart of Europe
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
I. A SANCTUARY LAID WASTE
II. THE FORGING OF MEDIÆVALISM
III. FLANDERS AND BRABANT
IV. A SPANISH NETHERLANDS
V. THE GLORY OF A GREAT ART
VI. AMIENS AND REIMS
VII. THE BURGHERS AND THEIR BUILDING
VIII. COAL AND IRON
IX. A TALE OF THREE CITIES
X. MARGARET OF MALINES
XI. THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTERS
XII. GOTHIC SCULPTURE
XIII. THE ALLIED ARTS
XIV. ART IN THE RHINELAND
XV. THE FOREST OF ARDEN
XVI. EX TENEBRIS LUX
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Ralph Adams Cram
Published by Good Press, 2019
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IT is not a large land, this Heart of Europe; three hundred and fifty miles perhaps from the Alps to the sea, and not more than two hundred and fifty from the Seine at Paris to the Rhine at Cologne; half the size, shall we say, of Texas; but what Europe was for the thousand years following the fall of Rome, this little country—or the men that made it great—was responsible. Add the rest of Normandy, and the spiritual energy of the Holy See, with a varying and sometimes negligible influence from the Teutonic lands beyond the Rhine, and you have the mainsprings of mediævalism, even though for its full manifestation you must take into account the men in the far countries of the Italian peninsula and the Iberian, in France and England, Bavaria, Saxony, Bohemia.
The great empires of to-day, England, France, Germany, Italy, two of which have eaten steadily into its territories until only a tiny Luxembourg remains, together with a small new state with a novel name made greater and more lasting by the events of a year than those of its predecessors, have dulled the memory of an ancient unity, taking to themselves at the same time credit, that is none of theirs, for men and happenings that made ten centuries of enduring history; so the glory, the high achievements of the small old states are forgotten. And yet, out of these little dukedoms and counties and free cities came the men who made France and Germany, who determined the genius of mediævalism, imparted to it the high soul and the swift hand of its peculiar personality, and gave to the world the memory and tradition of faith and heroism, together with so much of that inimitable art that was its perfect showing forth, and, until yesterday, a visible monument of its accomplishment.
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