Hiscock, Nigel.

The symbol at your door : number and geometry in religious architecture of the Greek and Latin Middle Ages / Nigel Hiscock. - Aldershot, Hampshire ; Ashgate Publishing, 2007. - xvii, 421 p. : ill. maps ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue - 1. The sphere and the cube - 2. Temple and body - 3. Ad Triangulum - 4. Ad Quadratum - 5. The architectural geometry of the pentagon - 6. The whole frame of the universe - Epilogue.

9780754663003 (hbk.)


Symbolism in architecture.
Geometry in architecture.
Religious architecture.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture, Byzantine.

726.509 / HIS