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Itβs French though, not Gothic.
Thereβs a wealth of speculation to choose from.,
from In Search of the Origin of the Gothic: Thomas Pitt Μs Travel in Spain in 1760
Tournemine was not an architect, nor an antiquarian, but a literary scholar, and it is difficult to determine from where he derived his idea that there were cathedrals built by the Moors in Spain. Nevertheless, there are several factors that may have contributed to this belief: the coexistence of Islamic and Christian architects in medieval Spain, the muΜdejar buildings, the re-utilization of Islamic buildings for Christian purposes, or the ambiguity of some primary sources that dated the cathedrals back to the time of the Moors.
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The Arab paternity of the Gothic, however, did not become common domain until mid-eighteenth century, when Wren Μs writings were published in Parentalia (1750), and when it was included in the EncyclopΓ©die (1751) by Diderot.24
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