Architecture - History - Medieval

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture. Cutting across disciplinarian and institutional divisions as we know them today, this book reconstructs developments within the framework of a cognitive history of the past. Modern is here taken to mean the radical re-thinking of...

This book argues that Robert Willis's presentations were fundamental to the format of British Archaeological Association meetings and to the creation of medieval architectural history. It discusses the background to his study of Canterbury in terms of his own research.Author: Alixe BoveyISBN-10: 1909662216ISBN-13: 9781909662216Publisher:...

Trained as both an archaeologist and an art historian, Richard Gem established his specialist interest in pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture with his doctoral research at Cambridge University. Since then he has researched, published and lectured widely in this subject, while holding posts in different...

John James is an Australian architect and medieval historian. Since 1969 he has been searching for the origins of the Gothic style, beginning with a five-year study of Chartres cathedral. At that time there were no coherent techniques for analysing the detailed construction history...

At the beginning of the eleventh century in northwestern Italy builders created a comprehensive system of architecture, integrating the square edges of stacked bricks on the exterior with arches, vaults, and niches inside the wall. They used the continuous verticality of bands to plan...

English summary: Brought together for the first time in a large-format volume these 160 images - including engravings and paintings as well as historical and modern site plans and photos - splendidly illustrate the development of the former Imperial Abbey of Lorsch from Carolingian...

Exploring the stories behind a range of iconic American and British buildings from the turn of the twentieth century, Medieval Metropolis is the first book to reveal how the modern architectural world thrived upon a foundation of medievalism. A vivid and wide-ranging account, it...

This study examines the discourse of reform within the Franciscan Observant movement through an analysis of two late medieval chronicles: Nicolaus Glassberger's Chronica ordinis minorum observantum and Bernardino Aquilano's Chronica fratrum minorum observantiae. It argues that these chronicles served not only as historical records...

This book is about a late medieval house, which seems to have disappeared. It is called Anwards, and was located in the southern part of Tidenham Parish near Sedbury, which is bounded by the rivers Severn and Wye.I am interested in house history, so...

In "Castles," the esteemed historian Charles Oman provides a comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the architectural and military evolution of the medieval fortress. Focusing primarily on the historic structures of England and Wales, this work meticulously details the transition from early earthwork and timber...

Title: Chronicles of the Castle of Amelroy, or Ammerzode; with some notices of its ancient barons. Illustrated by photographic views and portraits from original paintings by A. Dürer ... and others; with facsimiles of ... ancient documents.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library...

In this wide-ranging, eloquent book, Paul Binski sheds new light on one of the greatest periods of English art and architecture, offering ground-breaking arguments about the role of invention and the powers of Gothic art. His richly documented study locates what became known as...

Families often have amazing stories that accompany their family history and the Churko family is no different. The most amazing story is that of Thomas Tarbell who was killed by the Indians and his 3 children stolen. When rescued, his two sons refused to...

First published in 1900, this classic guide to Gothic architecture is an indispensable resource for students and enthusiasts of medieval art and architecture. Author Thomas Francis Bumpus provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of the key features of Gothic churches and cathedrals, as well as...

""Early London Theatres: In The Fields"" is a historical book written by Thomas Fairman Ordish and first published in 1894. The book provides a detailed account of the early London theatres that were built in the fields outside the city walls in the 16th...

In an age where the sacred is often forgotten, do you still believe that Heaven can touch the dusty earth of a mountain orchard?Imagine standing where the Queen of Heaven once stood, her feet gracing the soil of Tirano to deliver a message of...

Acknowledged as influential within the context of late medieval architecture in Italy, the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence has not attracted the substantive architectural study it deserves. The book re-envisions its building history, focusing on crucial stages in its creation: the...

Author: Athanassios MailisISBN-10: 3795435609ISBN-13: 9783795435608Publisher: Romisch-Germanisches ZentralmuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2020Pages: 156Format: Hardcover

English summary: The Islamic desert of Cuatrovitas is a case study of the planned expansion of a rural settlement including the construction of a mosque under the Almohads, and its survival under Christian rule. In a cooperative project between the universities of Bamberg, Huelva...

By the late Middle Ages, architecture became an increasingly important means of representation of princely rule and institutions. In addition to their symbolic significance, the ruler's buildings served a host of practical purposes. Obviously, castles and fortresses defended the territory, while urban and rural...

The book comprises fourteen essays addressing issues of art and architecture as well as archaeology within the context of sacred space, broadly defined and encompassing a wide range of territories, methodologies, approaches, and scholarly concerns. Our point of departure is the built environment, with...

Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built. The young bishopric of Molfetta, emerging in an economy of long-distance trade,...

This book seeks to further our understanding of the socio-genesis of artistic modernity by turning to micro-history. It explores a late-medieval decorative procedure that emerged and spread in northern and central France from the early fifteenth century to the start of the following century....

Late antique palaces and palace culture served as the loci of dramatic shifts in architecture and design, as well as urban planning, public works and patronage, in the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople, and the first palatine centres of the Holy Roman Empire....

Thirty-Five years after the publication of Jean Bony's seminal work on the so-called Decorated style of English architecture ('The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed', 1979), this volume brings together a selection of groundbreaking essays by the most promising emerging scholars of English medieval...

Erected in large numbers from about 1300 onwards, and featuring increasingly sophisticated designs, wayside crosses and other edifices in the public sphere - such as fountains, pillories and boundary markers - constituted the largest network of images and monuments in the late medieval world....

At the eastern confines of Latin Christendom, between the Levantine Crusader states, Byzantium, and Islam, the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus (1192-1489) was home to a rich and diverse array of Gothic ecclesiastical structures, significant remains of which are still to be seen today. From...

One of the most important building projects in late medieval Hungary was the reconstruction of the parish and pilgrimage church of St Elizabeth in Kosice (present-day Slovakia). The burghers of this prosperous, free royal town decided to rebuild their main church shortly before 1400,...

This volume is published in honour of Paul Binski, whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to illuminate the material and intellectual worlds of Gothic art and architecture. Remarkable for its material scope and philosophical depth, Paul's work has had a powerful influence...

Professor Fernie's research has done much to clarify the development of architecture in England and France from the Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian periods, through the Romanesque to the development of Gothic. Of particular interest has been his studies of architectural proportions and systems of length...

This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once...

This Here Now explains how traditional Japanese buildings respond to distinctive materials, objects and moments, and argues that the built acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm the individuality of our own being. The book also shows how buildings can help us to...

The church of Notre-Dame is a forgotten masterpiece, its past glory ruthlessly suppressed. The crusaders had brought back eastern techniques to transform Notre-Dame into a beacon of mystical exploration. They longed to join the angels in passionate union with the divine and built this...

In the late eleventh century, Ethiopian masons hewed great cruciform churches out of mountains in the eastern highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia's northernmost province. Hitherto unparalleled in scale, these monuments were royal foundations, instruments of political centralization and re-Christianization that anticipated the great thirteenth-century churches...

For over a millennium, Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093-1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsula formed by a bend in the River...

The White Tower--the gigantic structure at the heart of the building complex known as the Tower of London--gave that famed landmark its name. One of the most celebrated buildings of the London cityscape for nearly 1000 years, it is also the most complete eleventh-century...

Framing the Church takes a nontraditional approach to the study of the hallmark of French Gothic architecture: the buttress. In a series of case studies spanning approximately five hundred years and incorporating some of Gothic France's most significant monuments, Maile S. Hutterer examines the...

During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piazza Transformed, Areli Marina examines the radical transformation of Parma's urban center in this tumultuous period by reconstructing the city's...

In the wake of the Hundred Years' War, Northern Europe saw a reordering of financial, political, and social institutions and with it a change in architectural style. The church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, which is the most celebrated example of Late Gothic building in...

A historian of medieval art and architecture with a rich appreciation of literary studies, Stephen Murray brings all those fields to bear on a new approach to understanding the great Gothic churches of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Plotting Gothic positions the rhetoric of...

The four-volume sub-series 'Petrifying Wealth' explores the sudden ubiquity of masonry construction between 1050 and 1300 in Southern Europe and its profound effect on the European landscape. New questions about wealth, society, and medieval building are explored, which highlight the link between construction in...

This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic church architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. The book considers three main areas: the perception of Gothic architecture; the development of a tradition of scholarship on Irish...

The Star is an intriguing medieval building in the heart of a Sussex village called Alfriston. It has long been one of the most mysterious buildings in Britain and one of the most commented upon in print. Today it incorporates a beautifully designed hotel...

Delve into the second samurai novel. Meet new characters and a new story as Kudo's son decides too take his Dads place for goodAuthor: Kai Lee DavidsonISBN-10: 1678196916ISBN-13: 9781678196912Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2022Pages: 54Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.11d

First published in 1861, "Shakespeare: His Birthplace and its Neighbourhood" contains a detailed history of the English town Stratford-upon-Avon and its surrounding areas by John R. Wise. John Richard de Capel Wise (1883 - 1890) was an English writer, journalist, and editor. Other notable...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Charles PeersISBN-10: 144741540XISBN-13: 9781447415404Publisher: Angell...

The Enchanted Castle is a classic children's novel written by Edith Nesbit. The story follows the adventures of three siblings, Gerald, Kathleen, and Jimmy, who stumble upon an enchanted castle while exploring the countryside. They soon discover that the castle is home to a...

Starting with the broader edges of Francesco's written work and steadily penetrating into the fantastic world of his drawings, the book examines his singular formulation of the act of drawing and its significance in the context of the Renaissance.Author: Pari RiahiISBN-10: 1138229342ISBN-13: 9781138229341Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

How monuments such as Wells Cathedral or York Minster were conceived and built will always excite wonder, but for the first time this book presents newly discovered clues based on some of the builders' drawings. It also offers a long view of craftsmen's drawing...

Looking for the perfect gift for men who have everything? Or maybe you want a history book for adults that's filled with mysteries, forbidden facts, and hidden truths you won't find in school? Forbidden History: Buried Realms is a captivating blend of ancient myths,...