Worcester Cathedral - overlooking the cricket ground where the Australians are practising before the Ashes series against the Poms starts

 

The little painted Pilgrims' Church of St-Jacques des Guérets, Loir Valley

 

Cistercian Reial Monastir de Santes Creus, Catalonia (Spain)

 

St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)

Summer Solstice (21 June) in the north is Winter Solstice down in Sydney, where it's presently bloody cold.

 

Lincoln Cathedral 

 

 

"The Plumber"

Christchurch Priory, Dorset

 

New page - Memories of Adam and Eve

 

New page - Annunciations

 

Astrolabe

Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration

 

 

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Reima Cathedral

Reims Cathedral, Champagne

 

Abbazia Sant'Antimo

L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (S Tuscany)

 

La Foce - one of our new photos from South of Siena

 

Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, Burgundy

 

 

Moules in Le Mans

 

 

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Simply the Best Meals

 

Team Paradox's Truffle Festival Pages

 

 

Charlemagne (Louvre)

 

 

Insight Pages

 

Renaissance People

 

Kings and Queens of England

 

 

Montecassino WWII in Italy;  Medici Family, Medici Popes & Medici Queens;  40 Cistercian Abbeys; Crusades;  Equestrian Statues of the Renaissance;   The 100 Years' War;   Last Supper Paintings in Florence and Venice;   Europe's Leaders 1500 - 1550;   Justinian's Constantinople (527 - 565) Suleiman's Istanbul (1520-1566);   Great Mughal Emperors of India (+The Taj Mahal);   Mongol Emperors;   Travellers, Traders and Explorers 1000 - 1600

 

 

RECENT BOOK ADDITIONS  + BOOKS AND BOOKS AND BOOKS +

 

 

A little sea monster in a spandrel in the facade of Notre Dame la Grande in Poitiers.

 

 

Art Architecture and History of the Medieval Church + photos of hundreds of medieval cathedrals, abbeys, monasteries and churches

 

England's Medieval Cathedrals     Rome's Churches

Photos and histories of over 40 Cistercian Abbeys

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Adam 'n Eves   Annunciations   The Nativity   The Magi

Medieval Popes    Popes of the Renaissance

 

 

Donatello de'Bardi

Donatello de' Bardi (Louvre, Paris)

 

 

Movers and Shakers of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe

 

Chatty chronologies of interesting events, people, ideas, books, art and architecture from the end of the Western Roman Empire (500) to the emergence of the Nation States of Europe (1600).

 

Portraits from the Middle Ages

 

The 61 Most Popular Pages in Paradoxplace

 

Paradoxplace has nearly 1,000 pages of photos, stories, books, food and restaurants, which attract tens of thousands of new visitors each month.  These were the 61 most visited pages in March 2009.

 

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Trani Cathedral

Trani (Puglia) - Cattedrale di San Nicola il Pellegrino

 

 

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