The Effect of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Landscaping

The Effect of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Landscaping Effect Norman Conquest Anglo Saxon Landscaping 47413614.jpg

The Anglo-Saxon way of life was significantly changed by the appearance of the Normans in the later eleventh century. The Normans were better than the Anglo-Saxons at architecture and horticulture when they came into power. But before concentrating on home-life or having the occasion to think about domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Castles were more basic constructions and often erected on blustery hills, where their people devoted both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were major stone buildings, commonly situated in the widest, most fertile hollows. The tranquil practice of gardening was not viable in these bleak bastions. Berkeley Castle, potentially the most uncorrupted model of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture, still exists in the present day. It is said that the keep was created during William the Conqueror's time. A monumental terrace serves as a deterrent to intruders who would try to mine the walls of the building. A picturesque bowling green, enveloped in grass and bordered by battlements clipped out of an ancient yew hedge, makes one of the terraces.

The Main Characteristics of Ancient Greek Sculpture

The Main Characteristics of Ancient Greek Sculpture Main Characteristics Ancient Greek Sculpture 60759873828157637292.jpg

Archaic Greeks were renowned for creating the first freestanding statuary; up till then, most carvings were constructed out of walls and pillars as reliefs. Youthful, ideal male or female (kore) Greeks were the subject matter of most of the sculptures, or kouros figures. Considered by Greeks to represent splendour, the kouroi were formed into stiff, forward facing positions with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were usually nude, well-built, and fit. In 650 BC, life-size models of the kouroi began to be observed. The Archaic period was an extraordinary time of change for the Greeks as they grew into new forms of government, formed fresh expressions of art, and achieved insights of the men and women and cultures outside of Greece. Comparable to many other periods of historical conflict, arguments were commonplace, and there were battles between city-states like The Arcadian wars, the Spartan invasion of Samos.

Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome

Original Water Supply Techniques in Rome With the construction of the first raised aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s hills no longer had to depend only on naturally-occurring spring water for their requirements. Outside of these aqueducts and springs, wells and rainwater-collecting cisterns were the lone technologies around at the time to supply water to areas of high elevation. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a newer approach was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean portions to supply water to Pincian Hill. Spanning the length of the aqueduct’s passage were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. Original Water Supply Techniques Rome 48574139116.jpg

Original Water Supply Techniques Rome 48574139116.jpg

During the roughly nine years he had the property, from 1543 to 1552, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi made use of these manholes to take water from the network in buckets, though they were actually established for the goal of cleaning and maintenance the aqueduct. It seems that, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t sufficient to satisfy his needs. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat below his residence, and he had a shaft opened to give him access.