rasings

Updated: May 1, 2025

If they escaped the rasings and fires of a siege, they were often destroyed by lightning, or decayed by years; and some of the fragments which endured to the XIII century were torn down to make room for more beautiful buildings. It was the XI and XII centuries which saw the important beginnings of the great Cathedrals of both North and South.

Elise Whitlock Rose - Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1