The Gothic Age

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to it in the shape of power and prestige, when the
power of the church peaked in AD 1277.
Not only was this a good time for the Church, but this was also a very
good time for all of humanity. The standard of living dramatically rose, and
along with it, the population of Western Europe shot up. In 1346, the estimated
population of Europe was fifty-four point four million just before the plague
hit and wiped out more than a third of the population.1 2 This was more than
twice the population of Europeans in the year 950 when it was 22,600,0003 .
While the population was exploding there were so many new cathedrals
built that in the relatively short time period of two hundred and fifty years,
there was more stone quarried to be used in cathedrals (several million tons)
than was quarried during the age of the pyramids in Egypt, where there are
pyramids that are over two hundred and fifty million cubic meters big.4
The Gothic age survived many crusades, a plague that didnąt leave ...

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people1). This is what Ameins Cathedral was like when it was
built. The entire town of ten thousand people could fit into it all at the same
time to go to the same mass. It had a floor that was seven thousand, seven
hundred square meters.

New Ideas in the Cathedral that Reflected Christianity
There were many aspects about Gothic cathedrals that reflected the then
modern-day ways of life, such as how a common belief in those times was that the
closer you were to God, the holier you were. The architects would build huge
spires and high ceilings which would make the building look absolutely massive.
Another clever technique of the time was to create picture stories on the
windows ...

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