UID:
almafu_9959797267302883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 290 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0-226-19194-X
Content:
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 Gothic as a series of three interlocking plots: a spatial plot tied to the material construction of the churches, a social plot stemming from the collaborative efforts that made Gothic output possible, and a rhetorical plot involving narratives that treat the churches as objects of desire. Drawing on the testimony of three witnesses involved in church building-Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gervase of Canterbury, and the image maker Villard de Honnecourt-and a range of secondary sources, Murray traces common patterns in the way medieval buildings were represented in words and images. Our witnesses provide vital information about the way the great churches of Gothic were built and the complexity of their meanings. Taking a fresh approach to Gothic architecture, Plotting Gothic offers an invigorating new way to understand some of the most lasting achievements of the medieval era.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface and Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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1. Villard de Honnecourt: Ymagier and Interlocutor --
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2. Gervase of Canterbury: Cronicus and Logistics Man --
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3. Suger, Abbot of S-Denis, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion: Manipulating Reality and Producing Meaning --
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4. Interlocutor and Monument --
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5. Material Contexts: The Means of Production --
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6. The Production of Meaning --
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7. Picturing the Three Agents of Construction --
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8. The Cathedral as Object of Desire --
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9. Conclusion: Gothic Plots-Synchronic, Diachronic, and Spatial --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
Print version: Murray, Stephen, 1945- Plotting gothic. Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : University of Chicago Press, c2014 ISBN 9780226191805
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226191942
