Still others demonstrate how high-tech scanning and visualization methods can enhance our understanding of construction methods and the behavior of buildings. Others consider broader methodological issues such as the applications of geometry, workshop practice, and the shaping of historical narratives. Several of the essays present dramatic reinterpretations of canonical monuments including the Abbey of Saint-Denis, Beauvais Cathedral and Notre-Dame in Paris. The contributors to this book are among those at the forefront of these developments.
In recent years, the study of medieval architecture has been transformed by the emergence of new critical perspectives and new technologies. These studies constitute a snapshot of the range of new interpretive strategies being deployed by researchers in the reassessment of previous scholarship and identification of new modes of inquiry. This collection of essays presents the exciting and innovative work being done in the field of medieval architectural history by scholars affiliated with AVISTA, one of the most active sponsors of such research in the Anglo-American scholarly community. The great Romanesque and Gothic churches of subsequent centuries owe far more to the architectural achievements of the Early Middle Ages than has generally been recognized, the author argues.ĭownload New Approaches to Medieval Architecture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle He looks at buildings of the so-called Dark Ages-monuments that reflected a new assimilation of seemingly antithetical “barbarian” and “classical” attitudes toward architecture and its decoration-and at the grand and innovative architecture of the Carolingian Empire. McClendon draws on rich documentary evidence and archaeological data to show that the buildings of these three centuries, studied in isolation but rarely together, set substantial precedents for the future of medieval architecture.
During this period of transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, the Early Christian basilica was transformed in both form and function.Charles B. This book is the first devoted to the important innovations in architecture that took place in western Europe between the death of emperor Justinian in A.D.
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