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Article: Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe.
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- September 1, 2000
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Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe. By Catharine Randall. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. xii + 288 pp. $36.50 cloth.
This is a fascinating study of the subversive nature of architecture during a period of oppression. The setting is sixteenth-century France during the wars of religion and continuing into the troubled peace after the Edict of Nantes. We are accustomed to reading about Soviet writers and composers during the period of the Soviet Union and the tensions and restraints under which they worked. Catherine Randall shows how a similar situation existed in much of sixteenth-century France between ...