It started with Gov. Kay Ivey’s State of the State address on Feb. 6. There was the trite invocation of the “Gulf of America.

Three experts weigh in on the architectural style that defined Europe for centuries and continues to inspire buildings today ...

The word Gothic came ... and exciting style of literature, film and, eventually, music. Most medieval people lived in villages, as there were few large towns in the Middle Ages.

If ever you took an art class, you might have learned that in the Middle Ages ... the Gothic style, which brought light and height into the sanctuaries. And what came after that? Late Gothic.