The Results of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Gardens
The Results of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Gardens Anglo-Saxons encountered great modifications to their daily lives in the latter half of the eleventh century due to the accession of the Normans.
Engineering and horticulture were skills that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But before concentrating on home-life or having the occasion to consider domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Because of this, castles were cruder structures than monasteries: Monasteries were frequently significant stone buildings located in the biggest and most fecund valleys, while castles were constructed on windy crests where their citizens devoted time and space to projects for offense and defense. Peaceful activities such as gardening were out of place in these destitute citadels. Berkeley Castle is most likely the most intact model in existence nowadays of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture. The keep is reported to have been created during the time of William the Conqueror. An enormous terrace encompasses the building, serving as an obstruction to assailants wanting to dig under the castle walls. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an old yew hedge cut into the form of crude battlements.
A Chronicle of Fountains
A Chronicle of Fountains Himself a learned man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of hundreds of age-old documents from their original Greek into Latin. It was important for him to embellish the city of Rome to make it worthy of being called the capital of the Christian world. Beginning in 1453, the ruined ancient Roman aqueduct known as the Aqua Vergine which had brought clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away, underwent repair at the behest of the Pope. The ancient Roman tradition of building an imposing commemorative fountain at the location where an aqueduct arrived, also known as a mostra, was revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was directed by the Pope to build a wall fountain where we now see the Trevi Fountain. The water which eventually provided the Trevi Fountain as well as the acclaimed baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona came from the modified aqueduct which he had renovated.
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