Note 105 — Chapter III · THE ORIGIN OF SAXON ARCHITECTURE (A SUGGESTION) BY THE REV. W. MILES BARNES[101]
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"According to Müller (Archæologie der Kunst) corporations of builders of Grecian birth were allowed to settle in foreign countries, and to exercise a judicial government among themselves according to the laws of the country to which they owed allegiance; the principle was recognized by all the legal codes of Europe, from the fall of Rome to late in the thirteenth century. Such associations of builders were introduced into southern Europe during the reigns of Theodoric and Theodosius."