Early Christian church architecture: the Basilica

Regina Haggo explains the characteristics of the typical Early Christian basilica as it developed from the 4th to the 6th century AD. She also looks at the origins of this type of building in Roman architecture. This video is part of Taking the Mystery out of Art History, a series introducing significant styles, movements, subjects and artistic works.

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The most beautifully explained video I've seen on this particular topic 🥺🙏♥️

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The architectural style of these old churches is still retained in the construction of many Orthodox Churches today

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Well done, love these videos 😊

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Well explained! Thank you!

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Thank you for the video. Really interesting.

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5:03 the basilicas are the places for the soldiers who typically had a slightly different religion, like Mithraism, which was the most popular form of Zoroastrianism in the Roman Empire because all the soldiers were in the Mithraic order, before Christianity and the Aryan Christian Church after Christianity. The Mithraic eques element becomes the medieval knights basically. The horsemen class. You have to understand how hard it is to breed war horses and how guarded those horses were as their most prized friends and family. This horse breeding tradition proves that the dark ages weren’t really dark, just quiet, as the church of the soldiers consolidates powers for various reclamations of the greater medieval confederacy.

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