
The Gothic Period
The Gothic period, which began at millennium 1000 with unity of spirit and society, reached its peak under Frederick II in the 13th century. Then it plummeted so quickly in the 14th that everything was shattered. Society! Spirit! Everything!
God was still in his heaven—perhaps—but certainly not here on earth with His people. Dante’s Inferno enveloped the living. Black plague e . . .