The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c12.48

c12.48

And when that romance of real life is written, one chapter of it may tell how, after Charles Martel hammered the Moors on the battlefield of Tours and drove them from the fair fields of France, many of Abdur Rahman's craftsmen remained as captives or deserters to the winning side—for craftsmen were non-combatants, often unwillingly pressed into military service; and how, settling down in their new adopted country and working side by side with their brother-craftsmen of the Latin race, they helped to build those splendid abbeys which were