Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-12704-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bandmann, Gunter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wallis, Kendall

Böker, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bearing Bandmann ís Meaning: A Translatorís Introduction
Form and Type
Reception
Claim
Aufheben
Bauherr
Indicating
Coining
Deputy
Westbau
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 Visual Sources
Summary
3. Historical Meaning
Tradition and Habit
Turning Toward Historicity
The Effects of Historical Meaning
4. The Decline of Symbolic and Historical Meaning
Reform and Secularization
The Predominance of Artistic Tendencies
The New Awareness of Space
Summary
Afterword by Hans Josef B?ker

Über Autor(innen)

Gunter Bandmann was an eminent German historian who wrote on architecture and church history. Kendall Wallis is the humanities and social sciences librarian at McGill University. Hans Böker is professor of architectural history at McGill University.