Romanesque – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Romanesque – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 The Emperor’s Feast, the People’s Famine: Nero’s Extravagance as Rome’s Burden https://brewminate.com/the-emperors-feast-the-peoples-famine-neros-extravagance-as-romes-burden/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:06:30 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=263969 To be sure, Roman emperors were always expected to spend lavishly (on temples, forums, aqueducts, and games) but

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]]> Fontenay Abbey and the Medieval Cistercian Order https://brewminate.com/fontenay-abbey-and-the-medieval-cistercian-order/ Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:32:30 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=49264 Cloister, Fontenay Abbey, 12th century By Christine M. Bolli / 08.08.2015 PhD Candidate in Art History University of California, Santa

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]]> Julius Caesar as Ethnographer https://brewminate.com/julius-caesar-as-ethnographer/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 17:33:02 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=73018 Wikimedia Commons Convention and personal interest compelled Caesar to tum his hand to ethnography. By Dr. B.M. Bell

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]]> Yearning for Rome in the Medieval Romanesque https://brewminate.com/yearning-for-rome-in-the-medieval-romanesque/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:45:48 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=70380 South transept of Tournai Cathedral, Belgium, 12th century / Wikimedia Commons The Romanesque style appeared to be a

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]]> ‘Roman-Like’: Early to High Medieval Romanesque Art and Architecture https://brewminate.com/roman-like-early-to-high-medieval-romanesque-art-and-architecture/ Fri, 04 May 2018 18:50:00 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=59378 Abbaye de Lessay (département de la Manche), France / Photo by Ji-Elle, Wikimedia Commons Edited by Matthew A.

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]]> Romanesque and Gothic Architecture of Southwell Minster https://brewminate.com/romanesque-and-gothic-architecture-of-southwell-minster/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 18:52:02 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=49321 Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, England (photo: Steve Cadman) By Valerie Spanswick / 08.08.2015 Freelance Writer, History of Art and Architecture Southwell Minster

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]]> History and Architecture of the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome https://brewminate.com/history-and-architecture-of-the-basilica-of-san-clemente-in-rome/ Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:09:09 +0000 http://brewminate.com/?p=35768 The Basilica of San Clemente, Rome, church rebuilt 1099-1119 (mosaic 1130s) with eighteenth-century renovations (photo: Michael Foley, CC

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