The Master Builders: Architecture in the Middle Ages.

by John Hooper Harvey

070269742. 144 pages.

Genres: History, Architecture

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

English architectural and garden and architectural historian. A prolific writer and distinguished scholar, he made a major contribution over many years to several aspects of garden and architectural history, but his greatest achievement by far was his magisterial English Mediaeval Architects: A Biographical Dictionary down to 1550, first published in 1954, and subsequently revised. Based on documentary sources, it illumines the English medieval architectural world with gracefully presented facts.

Reviews

[Sitatunga · Rating 4 out of 5]

This has suffered with time, of course, but it's still a privilege to read the most passionate, partisan and evangelical of writers on this subject. This is a chapter from the Thames & Hudson coffee table tome on the wider subject of the middle ages, rebound in a very handy, attractive Thames & Hudson beige cloth covers with gold embossed lettering and white jacket. Expositions of the various periods, interlarded with maps of the major building sites, show Harvey in uncharacteristically restrained form; beautiful illustrations throughout.