Building a Monastery the Medieval Way

Der Spiegel Online ^ | 3/21/12 | Angelika Franz

[brewer1516]

The sequel, World Without End, was also pretty good. It told of the same town and cathedral 200 years after the cathedral was built (first book). I also read Fall of Giants. That is the first of what Follett calls his Century Trilogy and covers WWI. Though, I enjoyed much of it from a historical perspective, but it plod along after a short while and I was put off by the sanctimonious liberalism. He spends quite a bit of the book telling us how great socialism is for the downtrodden Welsh miners.

[Stegall Tx]

His “Eye of the Needle” is an excellent WWII spy novel.

[Cincinna]

Thanks, Civ
Fascinating! Monastic orders and architecture in medieval Europe are complex and astonishing.