Walled towns
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- Publication date
- 1919
- Topics
- Social history, Civilization, Medieval, Culture, Progress
- Publisher
- Boston, Marshall Jones Company
- Collection
- library_of_congress; americana
- Contributor
- The Library of Congress
- Language
- English
2 p. l., 105 p. 21 cm
- Addeddate
- 2012-08-06 20:10:51
- Call number
- 7314190
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- Canon EOS 5D Mark II
- External-identifier
- urn:oclc:record:1158283041
- Foldoutcount
- 0
- Identifier
- walledtown00cram
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- ark:/13960/t0gt6sp3m
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- 00243966589
- Lccn
- 19018459
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- 0.0.21
- Openlibrary_edition
- OL6620442M
- Openlibrary_work
- OL6094093W
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- Pages
- 124
- Possible copyright status
- The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item.
- Ppi
- 500
- Republisher_date
- 20120807163600
- Republisher_operator
- associate-phillip-gordon@archive.org
- Scandate
- 20120806232224
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- scribe5.capitolhill.archive.org
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- capitolhill
- Worldcat (source edition)
- 4292813
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Reviewer:
EudaemonicPlague
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December 21, 2020
Subject: God-Awful Writing
Subject: God-Awful Writing
Ralph Cram was an American architect (whose firm designed West Point Academy), and a bit of a religious fanatic (who had some sort of breakdown while in Rome, and became a high church Anglican for no apparent reason). He wrote a number of books, which, if one doesn't look closely, would appear to have been written by a Catholic priest.
This book, I expected, would be an interesting look at medieval walled towns. Sure enough, it begins with a prologue describing a walled town, but once the first chapter starts, you have to wonder what's going on. He describes an Irishman in terms that don't surprise me, given his background, but do show his bigotry toward the Irish immigrants of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
I'm in no hurry to resume reading this book, though, once I've had a bit of time to get something nice in my head, I will probably come back to it. When I first ran across one of his books, it was a straight-forward book about architecture, which made me interested in seeing whether he'd written anything else. I'm somewhat regretting it, since some of his writing has a whiff of sulfur and the attitudes of some self-righteous priest. I seriously thought I'd run across some British Catholic priest, until I decided to find out a little of his background. Perhaps the book will improve, once I get past his attempts at describing things he knows nothing about (people, that is).
This book, I expected, would be an interesting look at medieval walled towns. Sure enough, it begins with a prologue describing a walled town, but once the first chapter starts, you have to wonder what's going on. He describes an Irishman in terms that don't surprise me, given his background, but do show his bigotry toward the Irish immigrants of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
I'm in no hurry to resume reading this book, though, once I've had a bit of time to get something nice in my head, I will probably come back to it. When I first ran across one of his books, it was a straight-forward book about architecture, which made me interested in seeing whether he'd written anything else. I'm somewhat regretting it, since some of his writing has a whiff of sulfur and the attitudes of some self-righteous priest. I seriously thought I'd run across some British Catholic priest, until I decided to find out a little of his background. Perhaps the book will improve, once I get past his attempts at describing things he knows nothing about (people, that is).
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