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Kenneth John Conant.
Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture 800-1200, second edition. 
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966 (previous edition was 1959).
Series: Pelican History of Art.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; coloured tops.
Printer: R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh; Lund Humphries, Bradford.
Size: 182x264x46mm.
Page count: text xxxviii,343pp; plates 184pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: ex‑lib., Roehampton: dustjacket sealed under protective transparent plastic, though still shows some wear at the edges and corners; the usual library marks & stamps, and some biro markings on the contents pages, but the main text appears to be free of readers’ marks.

This item £15.00
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[Yale U.P. 4th edn. paperback in print at £20.00]
Weight without packaging: 1713g.

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Contents: Preparation for medieval architecture; Carolingian Romanesque; Pre-Romanesque architecture in the north, outside the Empire; Proto-Romanesque architecture in southern Europe; 'First Romanesque'; Germany under Saxon & Franconian emperors (936-1125); France 900-1050; Great churches of the pilgrimage roads; Reflex from the pilgrimage; Role of Cluny in history of Romanesque architecture; Cistercians & their architecture; General considerations in regard to regional schools; Kingdom of Arles, & Burgundy; Aquitania, Loire & Mediterranean; School of Auvergne; — of Languedoc; Styles dependent on Moors & on Lombardy; — on France; The 2 Sicilies; Central Italy; Northern Italy; Germany, Netherlands & Flanders; Scandinavia; Northern France & Norman England.

Illustrations: 80 text figures (inc. floorplans), plus 184 pages of plates, all monochrome; colour frontispiece
Maps: 11

Notes: at end of main text
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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