Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain

by Annette M. B. Meakin

[117] See F. Gregorovius, The City of Rome in the Middle Ages.

[118] Even in Rome there had been till then no Burgher class sufficiently strong to build a sure foundation for a secular constitution (op. cit.).

[119] See Lamperez, Historia de la Arquitectura Cristiana.

[120] “Es la época de apogeo del arte cristiano y de la idealizacion de la materia hasta convertirla en sutilisima expresion del pensamiento religioso” (op. cit.).

[121] “Ce ne sont pas des soldats qui rapportent un art dans le baggage” (Viollet-le-Duc).

[122] See Edward Preissig, Ph.D., Notes on the History and Political Institutions of the Old World, 1906.

[123] See Lamperez, op. cit.

[124] Lamperez. See also Buckart, Geismuller, and Munty, three great authorities quoted by Lamperez.

[125] See Arturo Vazques Nuñez, La Arquitectura Cristiana en la provincia de Orense, 1894.

[126] The first cathedral built over the apostle’s body was finished in 874, and consecrated on May 17th, 899.