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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41190#0045
by the heralds to bear metal on me/ The
tal in his coat'armour* Neverthe' Crusa'
less, the Westerners who settled in ders
this new realm, few in number as
they were, readily received impress
sions from the art which they saw
around them,the Saracenic Byzan^
tine Art, which was, after all, sym'
pathetic with their own minds: SC
these impressions produced the
change* For it is not to be thought
that there was any direct borrow'
ing of forms from the East in the
gradual change from the round'
arched to the pointed Gothic: there
was nothing more obvious at work
thantheinfluenceofakindredstyle,
whose superior lightness and ele'
gance gave a hint of the road which
development might take*
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tal in his coat'armour* Neverthe' Crusa'
less, the Westerners who settled in ders
this new realm, few in number as
they were, readily received impress
sions from the art which they saw
around them,the Saracenic Byzan^
tine Art, which was, after all, sym'
pathetic with their own minds: SC
these impressions produced the
change* For it is not to be thought
that there was any direct borrow'
ing of forms from the East in the
gradual change from the round'
arched to the pointed Gothic: there
was nothing more obvious at work
thantheinfluenceofakindredstyle,
whose superior lightness and ele'
gance gave a hint of the road which
development might take*
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