The Fall of the Classical World

There's no real continuity anymore one of the crowns in the Swedish coat of arms is the crown of the coths this is Renaissance wishful thinking rather than any reality. The houses of parliament are built in a deliberately non-classical architecture which they think is Victorians called Gothic because classical architecture is associated not with democracy and with responsive answerable government but with autocratic dominant monarchy so palladian architecture that's the architecture of autocracy. When we get these extraordinary Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages that's because they're not Romanesque they're not which had been the previous architectural style they're non-classicals got nothing to do with ghosts I don't think you know