Stierlin, Henri (ed.) — The Romanesque: Towns, Cathedrals and Monasteries

Koln, Taschen, 2001. Softcover. Eggshell wraps with orange lettering; 237 pp. with mostly color illustrations throughout, unpaginated. In Romanesque architecture, we see an expression not merely of power and faith but of the religious, political and social upheavals of the 11th and 12th-century Europe. New buildings arose, their complex formal language determined by the rise of the pilgrimage, the cult of relics, and the reform of the monastic orders. VG, clean and tight with only one tiny scuff mark to back cover .