As Prof Stalley remarks, throughout this period "the heritage of Rome. What was the West to do with the shattered inheritance of the Roman Empire after the fifth century? In the field of architecture, as in so many others, the future lay in harnessing what remained to the service of the only surviving institution capable of preserving Romanitas or civilisation: the Church. For the professional or the interested amateur this book provides a stimulating introduction to a subject of great importance. In the bibliographical essay at the end of this excellent book, Roger Stalley remarks that "the study of early medieval buildings is potentially an exciting field, though this regrettably is not always the impression given by the literature." Without doubt Prof Stalley's contribution to that literature as represented here captures that excitement to the full.
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