Why are Gothic cathedrals considered the ultimate expression of the Age of Faith? The High Middle Ages
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There are at least two ways in which this is true.
First, although this was the Age of Faith, it was also an age of growing scientific knowledge. Gothic cathedrals celebrated that knowledge. The knowledge of engineering was...
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