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FOOTNOTES:

[A] “The Pagan-Christian Overlap in the North,” by H. Colley March, M.D. (Lond.)

[B] “The seven periods of Church Architecture,” by Edmund Sharpe.

[C] “Gothic Architecture,” by Thomas Rickman.

Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

Arch of Septimius Severus 21=> Arch of Septimus Severus 21

was the typical forms used=> was the typical form used {pg 23}

from Rome to Byzantine=> from Rome to Byzantium {pg 31}

Girolama della Robbia=> Girolamo della Robbia {pg 81}

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