Halls and Hovels
Colin Richmond, 19 December 1991
The Architecture of Medieval Britain
by Colin Platt, with photographs by Anthony Kersting.
Yale, 325 pp., £29.95, November 1990,0 300 04953 6 Show More
by Colin Platt, with photographs by Anthony Kersting.
Yale, 325 pp., £29.95, November 1990,
“... into Art; and their history has been rendered anodyne. The pictures in books such as this one do no service to that history. Still, if these pictures do seduce, they may also impel the smitten to discover more about the object of desire. For the intellectually curious the footnotes are a more than adequate bibliography. Mr Platt, I believe, claims far too ... ”