Gothic houses of prayer are not the religious working of the antiquated Goths, but instead churches worked in the Gothic engineering. Similarly as Vandalism doesn’t have anything to do with the Vandals, Gothic engineering has nothing to do with the Goths. It’s a style of engineering that created in France out of the Romanesque style in the twelfth century and was essentially known as the “French Style”. Gothic engineering spread to all of Western Europe and kept on advancing until well into the sixteenth century, before being subsumed into Renaissance craftsmanship. At exactly that point it was called “Gothic”, and not emphatically as the Goths were viewed as inconsiderate and brutal. Continue Reading