Format:
1 online resource (371 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780231501729
Content:
This classic text -- continually in print for more than half a century -- analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Bearing Bandmann's Meaning: A Translator's Introduction -- 1: The Problem of Meaning in Architecture -- The Essence of Meaning -- The Medieval Work of Art -- Aesthetic Meaning -- The Current State of Research on Symbolic and Historical Meaning in Architecture -- Sources and Methods: The Sources -- Sources and Methods: The Methods -- 2: The Symbolic Meaning of Buildings According to Written and Visual Sources -- The Written Sources -- The Medieval Copy -- Historical Consciousness in the Middle Ages -- The Intended Purpose -- The Allegorical Meaning -- The Church as Heavenly City -- The Visual Sources -- The Formal Consequences of Allegorical Meaning -- The Meaning of the Keystone -- The Column as Figure -- City and Castle as Model of the Church -- The Two-Towered City Gate -- The City Wall -- The Three-Tower Group -- The Niche-Portal -- The Three-Arched Opening -- Summary -- 3: Historical Meaning -- Tradition and Habit -- Turning Toward Historicity -- State, Religion, and Law -- Sacred Kingship -- Writing -- Portraiture -- Images of Events -- The Demarcated Area -- Dwelling, Tomb, Temple -- Building in Stone -- The Holy Place -- Spolia -- Axial Arrangement Within a Structured Area -- Axial Arrangement Within a Building -- The Effects of Historical Meaning -- The Emperor and Architecture -- The Transept as Throne Hall -- The Cruciform Tomb -- The Three-Chambered Layout -- The Architectural Baldachin -- The Transept Basilica and Cruciform Basilica of the Franks Before Charlemagne -- The Central-Plan Building -- The Westwork -- Tendencies of the Western Imperium -- The Beginnings of Norman Architecture in Relation to the Architecture of the Empire -- The Roman Idiom of the Western Imperium -- The Double Choir -- Architectural Ornament -- The Emperor's Rivals -- The Roman Curia
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The Monastic Orders -- The Italian Cities -- Bishops and Regional Lords -- The "Nations" -- 4: The Decline of Symbolic and Historical Meaning -- Reform and Secularization -- The Predominance of Artistic Tendencies -- The New Awareness of Space -- Summary -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bandmann, Gunter Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning New York : Columbia University Press,c2005 ISBN 9780231127042
Language:
English
Keywords:
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