Drawing on new work published over the past twenty years, the author offers a history of building in Western Europe from 300 to 1200. Medieval castles, church spires, and monastic cloisters are just some of the areas covered.
At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then.
For words ot caution see Nicholas Brooks. "Canterbury, Rome and the Construction of English Identity,*1 Early Medieval Rome, 13 William St. J. Hope, "Recent discoveries in the abbey church of St. Austin of Canterbury," Archaeologia 66 ...
Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain covers the Spanish medieval experience from the Visigothic oligarchy to the year 1000, addressing a variety of cases of cultural interchange.
"First published in Germany in 1951, and now finally available in English, Günter Bandmann's classic Early Architecture as Bearer of Meaning has had tremendous influence on architectural and medieval historians.
This is the first book devoted to churches in Ireland dating from the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century to the early stages of the Romanesque around 1100, including...
Drawing on new work published over the past twenty years, the author offers a history of building in Western Europe from 300 to 1200. Medieval castles, church spires, and monastic cloisters are just some of the areas covered.
Presents an overview of Medieval architecture, describing the similarity of the features of both religious and secular structures and how these buildings reflect the people who built and used them.
The texts provided describe specific architectural design strategies or the spatial phenomena that are experienced by contemporary visitors. Ideally, the photographs are what tell the story most vividly.
The applications of both geometry and metrology are considered in this volume, often with illustrations generated by computer-assisted design (CAD) software.
By learning how to identify the stylistic phases that resulted from shifts in architectural fashion, it is possible to date each part of a church to within a decade or two; this book introduces all the key features of each succeeding style, ...