Diana Darke - Christopher Wren and the 'Saracen' Style | Wren 300 Symposium

Diana says, "An exploration of Islamic influence in key European monuments can illuminate Christopher Wren's theory that "the Gothic Style should more rightly be called the Saracen Style", as evidenced by his own designs."
This session was part of the Wren 300 Symposium held at Wadham College: www.wadham.ox....

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After the last ice age, Europe always outsourced the sunshine energy falling on the Middle East - from Baghdad to Marrakech - geography and laws of physics matter.
“In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most.
No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores.
No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it.
This universal truth applies to all systems.
Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).