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Aspire Blogging? (4.00 / 3)
Spires meant a visible center and focus to a village when all other village buildings would be max 2 level - pre-Industrial Revolution. Also it was a nice pointer for the sinners as to where they should be aiming to get to ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 09:26:45 AM EST
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Re: Aspire Blogging? (4.00 / 3)
More then the "axis mundi" part, the higher the bells were, the further they would reach... :-)

The shift between the roman style to the gothic one, was more on the separation with "nature" and relationship to another plane ! (more of a political statement).

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Mon Mar 10th, 2008 at 09:38:33 AM EST
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