<scp>G</scp>othic Church Architecture
Alvin J. Schmidt
Abstract From the time Christianity became a legal religion in AD 313, with Edict of Milan, to end 1st millennium, churches were mostly built style Roman basilica. These degree still retained some pagan architectural style, such as Greek pillars supporting flat‐roofed ceilings and round arches over doorways. It was not that lifted human spirit. was, one scholar has observed, “a which Christian spirit acquiring an individuality its own, due course would express itself art own.”
The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization