Screen LibraryThe idea of the Gothic cathedral : interdisciplinary perspectives on the meanings of the medieval edifice in the modern period /
The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period. Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Gothic cathedral holds a privileged place within the European cult...
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Brepols,
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| Publisher Address: | Turnhout, Belgium : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English French |
| Series: |
Ritus et artes ; volume 9. |
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| Summary: |
The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period. Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular, the Gothic cathedral holds a privileged place within the European cultural imagination and experience. Due to the burgeoning historical interest in the medieval past, in connection with the medieval revival in literature, visual arts, and architecture that began in the late seventeenth century and culminated in the nineteenth, the Gothic cathedral took centre stage in numerous ideological discourses. These discourses imposed contemporary political and aesthetic connotations upon the cathedral that were often far removed from its original meaning and ritual use. This volume presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the resignification of the Gothic cathedral in the post-medieval period. Its contributors, literary scholars and historians of art and architecture, investigate the dynamics of national and cultural movements that turned Gothic cathedrals into symbols of the modern nation-state, highlight the political uses of the edifice in literature and the arts, and underscore the importance of subjectivity in literary and visual representations of Gothic architecture. Contributing to scholarship in historiography, cultural history, intermedial and interdisciplinary studies, as well as traditional disciplines, the volume resonates with wider perspectives, especially relating to the reuse of artefacts to serve particular ideological ends. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 373 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-363) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9782503568133 2503568130 |
| Index Number: | NA440 |
| CLC: | TU252 |
| Call Number: | TU252/I192 |
| Contents: |
The medieval edifice in the modern period / The Moorish-Gothic cathedral: invention, reality, or weapon? / Acting medieval, thinking modern, feeling German / L'Histoire d'une cathédrale: Viollet-le-Duc's nationalist pedagogy / The Gothic cathedral and historiographies of space / The anarchist cathedral / L'Imaginaire de la cathédrale à l'épreuve de la Grande Guerre / Church, nation, and the 'Stones of France' / Patterns of behaviour: architectural representation in the romantic period / Frozen music and symphonies in stone: Gothic architecture and the musical analogy from the Enlightenment through the Fin-de-Siècle / Délires opiomanes et gothicomanes de Thomas De Quincey à Wilfred Sätty / The cathedral as time machine: art, architecture, and religion / |