Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

Henry Adams

Capitolo 41

and his/her monks, stormed in a frenzy of understanding that expressed the
masculine and military passions of the best archangel that him
granted with the rules of Saint Benedict.



I CAPITULATE III

THE MERVEILLE

The nineteenth century transported fast and furious, so that one that stirred
in him he felt sometimes taken by dizziness, while looking at to rotate him/it;  but the eleventh one stirred
faster and more furiously still. The Norman conquest of England was
an immense effort, and its consequences were of vast course but the
before crusade was together the most interesting event of European
history. It never has the world Western shown anything as the energy
and unity with which her then flung her on the east, and for the
moment made back the East leap. Except his/her family it quarrels, Europe was
an unity then, in thought, the wish and object. The Christianity was the
unity. Mont-Saint-Michel and Byzantium is near each other. The
Emperor Constantine and the emperor as which Charlemagne has been figured
allies and friends in the popular legend. The east was the ground of common ownership
hostile, always superior in wealth and numbers, frequently in energy,
and sometimes in thought and art.  The burst of the first crusade
it was also splendid in a military sense, but it was great over
comparison in its reflection in architecture, adorns, poetry,
colour, religion and the philosophy. His/her men were stupendous, and his/her
women were worth the whole rest.

Mont-Saint-Michel, better than some other stain in the world, it holds
the architectural record of that ferment, very as the Sicilian
times hold the record of the burst similar of Greek energy,
art, poetry and thought fifteen one hundred years before. Of the
eleventh century, nothing but the rests of church it is true to the
Mountains, and, if you/he/she is subsequently studied, the century had to be looks for
elsewhere that it is not difficult since you/he/she is preserved in some
number of churches in every run of tourist trip. Normandy is full
of him;  Bayeux and Caen contain few others. To the Mountain, the
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