The Romanesque:Towns,Cathedrals and Monasteries

In Romanesque architecture,we see an expression not merely of power and faith but of the religious,political and social upheavals of 11th- and 12th-century Europe. New buildings arose,their complex formal language determinated by the rise of the pilgrimage,the cult of relics,and the reform of the monastic orders. As cities expanded and social structures mutated,new civil and military building proliferated