G. Baldwin Brown epub The Arts in Early England (Classic Reprint)

Prefatory Note The following chapters deal with some of the facts of religious and social life that underlie the early history of English art. Since it is impossible to write about pre-C onquest churches, or other monuments of the A nglo-S axon period, without introducing names of ecclesiastics and statesmen and referring to epochs and schools and provinces, it seemed convenient to place the necessary historical notices of these in a connected form before the reader, prior to any technical dissertations on buildings or works of art. The discussions in this volume are intended to assist those who interrogate the monuments of the past concerning their arrangements, their history, and their surroundings. For the immediate purpose in hand the treatment of some of the themes may seem to be carried needlessly far, but in these days many who study with the most lively interest the localities and the monuments of the mother country have not grown up in familiarity with our cathedral establishments, our ancient boroughs, or our country villages, and such may be glad to possess in brief and readable form a connected account of the origin and working of these characteristically English(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org