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Scottish architecture of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries is often dismissed as backward and clumsy because it didn't follow late English Gothic fashion. This paper shows that the Scots deliberately chose to do something different for reasons of cultural nationalism. They looked more to continental Europe and back at their own architecture of the Golden Ages of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries before the wars with England. Reviving an earlier architectural style is just what the Italians were doing at the same time and we call that the Renaissance. So the Scots far from being backward were actually ahead of the game.

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This page is a summary of: A Romanesque Revival and the Early Renaissance in Scotland, c. 1380-1513, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September 1995, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.2307/990994.
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