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IV. Gothic architecture is about overcoming fear through entwined interdependencies. It is a Type Six.

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe descended into a chaotic period of social disorder and marauding invasions from Goths, Norsemen, Saracens, Magyars and Huns. Its population lived in constant fear. Not until the invention of the feudal system was some modicum of social order re-established.

The feudal system knitted together all levels of s...

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