The Origins of Medieval Architecture: Building in Europe, A.D. 600 900 by Charles B. McClendon Indigenous Studies French & Portuguese texts binding:Hardcover French & Portuguese texts New Haven: Yale University Press in association with The Portland Museum of Art The great Romanesque and Gothic churches of subsequent centuries owe far more to the architectural achievements of the Early Middle Ages than has generally been recognized He looks at buildings of the so called Dark Ages—monuments that reflected a new assimilation of seemingly antithetical “barbarian” and “classical” attitudes toward architecture and its decoration—and at the grand and innovative architecture of the Carolingian Empire