Medieval Architecture

The architecture of Byzantium and Western Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance: the Byzantine synthesis of dome and mosaic, the round-arched Romanesque and the pointed-arch, rib-vaulted Gothic that followed it. Belongs here: any style whose primary period runs from roughly the fifth to the fifteenth century in this tradition. Does not belong here: the nineteenth-century revival of Gothic forms, grouped under nineteenth-century revival and eclectic architecture, which is a modern style borrowing a medieval vocabulary rather than medieval architecture itself.