Capitolo 2
1142, and its life precisely covers the period of the birth,
development and improving of that Gothic style of architecture
what one are of the great samples of the period. Really, the
Norman development spent the years from 1050 to 1125 while the
beginning and determining of Gothic they only consumed fifteen years,
from Buries, started in 1125, to Saint-Denis, the job of Abbot Suger,
the friend and partisan of Abelard, in 1140. It was the time of the
Crusades, of the foundation and development of schools and
the universities, of the invention or recovery of great arts of the
the growth of music, poetry and novel. It had the age of great kings
and riders and leader of some the son-in-laws, but above all it was the
epoch of a new philosophy, refounded on the angle recently reveal
stones of Plato and Aristotle, but with a new content, a new
impulse and a new method inhaled by Christianity.
All these things, the philosophy, art the personality, character both the
product of the time that, in his/her definiteness and consistence,
stands separately from every other epochs in history. The social system
it was that of feudalism, a scheme of the mutual duties, rights
and obligations as among man and man that have never been sublime
from some other system of which society has developed as its his/her own method
operation. As the Dr. De Wulf has told his/her book that illuminates
"The philosophy and the Civilization in the Centuries Averages" (a volume that
you/he/she should be read by some one who exactly desires to understand the
spirit and quality of Mediaevalism), "the feudal feeling _par
excellence_... it is the feeling of the value and the dignity of the
individual man. The feudal men lived free as a man; he was master
in his/her his/her own house; he looked for his/her end in him; he was--and this is
an existens_ of seipsum of scholastic expression,--_propter: entirely feudal
obligations upon respect were founded for the personality and the determined one
word."
Clearly this admirable scheme of society with his/her system of guild of