[107] Santa Comba de Bande and San Pedro de Rocas.

[108] See George E. Street, F.S.A., Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, 1865.

[109] See J. Amador de los Rios, El Arte Latino-Byzantine, 1861.

[110] See Tarig-ben-Zeyad and Mirza-ben-Nosayar, both quoted by Amador de los Rios.

[111] Ataulf was the founder of the Visigoth kingdom in Spain, just as Alaric was the founder of the Ostragoth kingdom in Italy.

[112] “Los objetos artisticos que constituyen el Tesoro de Guerrazar, revelan claramente la existencia de una arte en que se asocian y asemelan los elementos constitutivos del arte romano, ya alterado por la poderosa influencia de la Iglesia latina y del arte bizantino, tal como aparece en la primera edad de su desarollo” (op. cit.). Many of these are now in the Cluny Museum.

[113] “La única senda possible para realizar la obra del Renacimiento” (op. cit.).

[114] See Historia de la Arquitectura Christiana, 1904.

[115] In Galicia there are practically no traces of the Moors, except an Arabic inscription on a stone in a church at Betauzos, the name of a street there. The carved woodwork of the Fonseca ceiling, and that at Monforte, are of more recent date, and the work of Spaniards.

[116] “Then nearly all the bishops’ seats, the churches, the monasteries of saints, and even the oratories in the villages, were changed by the faithful for better ones” (op. cit.). Radulphus Glaber (who died 1045), quoted by Parker in Gothic Architecture.