What exchange of architectural ideas can be witnessed in the medieval period?
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Explanation:
Between the 8th and the 18th centuries kings and their officers built two kinds of structures: First were forts, palaces and tombs. Second were structures meant for public activity including temples, mosques, tanks, wells, bazaars.
By making structures for subjects’ use and comfort, rulers hoped to win their praise.
Construction activity was also carried out by others, including merchants. However, domestic architecture – large mansions (havelis) of merchants – has survived only from the eighteenth century.
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Trabeate Arches
Monuments provide an insight into the technologie used for construction.
Between the 7th and 10th centuries architects started adding more rooms, doors and windows to buildings using “trabeate” or “corbelled” design.
Corbelled: roofs, doors and windows were made by placing a horizontal beam across two vertical columns.
From the 12th century onwards certain changes were visible .
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“Arcuate“ type design started to appear. Here the weight of the superstructure above doors and windows was carried by the arches . The “keystone” at the centre of the arch transferred the weight of
Before one can understand the architecture of the Medieval Times, one must first understand the Medieval Times themselves. The Medieval Period, also commonly referred to as the Middle Ages, began in the 5th century and lasted until the 15th century. Historians now divide the Middle Ages, which began when the Western Roman Empire fell, into three distinct periods.