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1. Reformations

   From High Renaissance to Mannerism in the New West of Religious Contention and Colonial Expansion

   By Christopher Tadgell

   Series: Architecture in Context

   The rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series begins with a definition...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. The West

   From the Advent of Christendom to the Eve of Reformation

   By Christopher Tadgell

   Series: Architecture in Context

   Christopher Tadgell covers the major architectural traditions of the Middle Ages, from the Romanesque architecture of the ninth and tenth centuries, built on the legacy of ancient Rome and including elements from Carolingian, Ottonian, Byzantine and northern European traditions, through to the...

   Published May 5th 2009 by Routledge
3. Islam

   From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul

   By Christopher Tadgell

   Series: Architecture in Context

   This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community,...

   Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge
4. The East

   Buddhists, Hindus and the Sons of Heaven

   By Christopher Tadgell

   Series: Architecture in Context

   Continuing the Architecture in Context series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Japanese archipelago, over a period extending from prehistory to the arrival of Islam and its distinct traditions...

   Published November 5th 2007 by Routledge
5. Antiquity

   Origins, Classicism and The New Rome

   By Christopher Tadgell

   Series: Architecture in Context

   The first in a new series of five books describing and illustrating the seminal architectural traditions of the world, Antiquity traces architectural history from its very beginnings until the time when the traditions that shape today’s environments began to flourish. More than a catalogue of...

   Published May 2nd 2007 by Routledge