Ruskin’s essay ‘The Nature of Gothic’ praises the value of gothic architecture as an enlightened form of art, looking at it from six moral perspectives beyond just it as a form of architecture and contrasting it with other ages of art. Ruskin’s argument wasn’t entirely clear most of the time though, he was very rambling in his prose and strayed from his point often, what such was I am not entirely sure anyhow. 

Why this was set for my fantasy module I have no idea other than Ruskin being a key critic in medievalism, but having been to his house over summer did not have me read this in a more sympathetic light.