The Annual of the British School at Athens Volume 12 - Brossura

Athens, British School At

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1130814289 ISBN 13: 9781130814286

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...Danubian provinces.1 Thus von Stern 2 in reporting on these discoveries has as little real justification for putting the earliest ceramics of South and South-west Russia in a parental relation towards the pre-historic pottery of the Aegean, as Hubert Schmidt had for claiming the same parentage in favour of Austria-Hungary. Duncan Mackenzie. (To be continued) 1 This white-encrusted pottery is very amply illustrated in Wosinsky, Die inkrustierte Keramik der Stein-und Bronzezeit. SeeHoemes, il. 41 ff., especially on the pottery of Debelo-brdo near Sarajevo in its contrast with that of Butmir.-Dieprd-mykenische Keramik in Slid-Russland, Moscow, 1905. LACONIA. I.--MEDIAEVAL FORTRESSES.1 (plates II.--VI.). The troubled state of the Peloponnesus during the Middle Ages left its mark on no buildings more evidently than on its castles. Each successive owner obtained his title at the cost of some part of the building, and his first thought on gaining possession was either to strengthen the fortress he had just captured, or to dismantle it utterly and leave behind him a useless pile of ruins. Military architecture too, is little influenced by respect for the past and the more important castles must have been frequently modernised, so but little is left of their original structure. The lack of those ornamental details which are the main clue to the age of more elaborate buildings renders a classification of the different types of plan and of masonry of some importance; where mouldings or other details are found their evidence is usually conclusive, but in their absence we must be guided by the form of the plan and by the masonry. Military science had reached a high degree of excellence at the time of the fourth Crusade; the principal methods of attack were by mining, by...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1130814289
• ISBN 13: 9781130814286
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162