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"In northern Europe, even warlike knights and barons did not
want to spend all their time in gloomy and nearly windowless
castles. What they wanted was light and sunshine, and so they
tired of architectural forms based upon dark Roman models. The
cult of windows became an obsession, and, as time went on
builders competed in constructing both halls and churches with
larger and larger and ever more splendid windows. The medieval
craftsmen may have been hopelessly unscientific but they were
sometimes much more creative than we generally recognize. In
particular we owe them a great debt for showing us what beautiful
and exciting things can be done with windows." [Gordon, J. E.. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down. United States, Hachette Books, 2009. 212]
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