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Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture
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How have the concepts of “lateness” and “modernity” inflected the study of medieval and early modern architecture? This volume seeks to (re)situate monuments from the 14th—16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.
Drawing on case studies from Cyprus to the Dominican Republic, the book explores historiographical, methodological, and theoretical concerns related to the study of medieval architecture, bringing to the fore the meanings and functions of the Gothic in specific contexts of use and display. The development of local styles relative to competing traditions, and instances of coexistence and hybridization, are considered in relation to workshop practices and design theory, the role of ornament, the circulation of people and knowledge, spatial experiences, as well as notions of old and new.
Contributors are: Jakub Adamski, Flaminia Bardati, Costanza Beltrami, Robert Bork, Jana Gajdošová, Maile S. Hutterer, Jacqueline Jung, Alice Klima, Abby McGehee, Paul Niell, Michalis Olympios, Zachary Stewart, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Kyle G. Sweeney, and Marek Walczak.
Drawing on case studies from Cyprus to the Dominican Republic, the book explores historiographical, methodological, and theoretical concerns related to the study of medieval architecture, bringing to the fore the meanings and functions of the Gothic in specific contexts of use and display. The development of local styles relative to competing traditions, and instances of coexistence and hybridization, are considered in relation to workshop practices and design theory, the role of ornament, the circulation of people and knowledge, spatial experiences, as well as notions of old and new.
Contributors are: Jakub Adamski, Flaminia Bardati, Costanza Beltrami, Robert Bork, Jana Gajdošová, Maile S. Hutterer, Jacqueline Jung, Alice Klima, Abby McGehee, Paul Niell, Michalis Olympios, Zachary Stewart, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Kyle G. Sweeney, and Marek Walczak.
Alice Isabella Sullivan, Ph.D., (2017), University of Michigan, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies at Tufts University. She specializes in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres.
Kyle G. Sweeney, Ph.D., (2017), Rice University, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Winthrop University and a specialist in the architectural and urban history of late medieval and early modern France.
Kyle G. Sweeney, Ph.D., (2017), Rice University, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Winthrop University and a specialist in the architectural and urban history of late medieval and early modern France.
"In a time when the more inclusive label “early modern” has largely come to substitute for the more stylistically determined and Eurocentric “Renaissance,” Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture scrutinizes the new, fine line between late medieval and early modern architecture. [...] Scholars of medieval and early modern architecture will enjoy reading this erudite and accessibly written work from cover to cover, as it continues a robust scholarly conversation that has been ongoing in multiple subfields of architectural history for more than a decade [...] The production values of books in this series have been excellent since the series moved to Brill, and Lateness and Modernity in Medieval Architecture is no exception, being as much a pleasure to hold as it is to read." Lindsay S. Cook, in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 83.2, pp. 234-236
"While the volume’s ostensible focus is lateness and modernity, it is also in large part a study of architectural memory. The topic of architectural memory is an important thread demonstrating how the progress of modernity is viewed through the lens of the past [...] of clear interest to architectural historians of this period, the volume’s attention to collective memories (both real and fictive) not only in architecture itself but also in ornamentation, historiography, and terminology (namely, what and where is ‘Gothic’?) will also make it appealing to art historians." Elisa Foster, in: Architectural Histories 12.1
"While the volume’s ostensible focus is lateness and modernity, it is also in large part a study of architectural memory. The topic of architectural memory is an important thread demonstrating how the progress of modernity is viewed through the lens of the past [...] of clear interest to architectural historians of this period, the volume’s attention to collective memories (both real and fictive) not only in architecture itself but also in ornamentation, historiography, and terminology (namely, what and where is ‘Gothic’?) will also make it appealing to art historians." Elisa Foster, in: Architectural Histories 12.1
Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney
Relativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic Architecture
Robert Bork
1 Late Gothic Medieval Imaginations in Jean Fouquet’s Grandes chroniques de France
Maile S. Hutterer
2 Reading Late Gothic Architecture
The Balustrades at Notre-Dame, Caudebec-en-Caux
Abby McGehee
3 The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style
Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey
Zachary Stewart
4 “Toutefois moderne, sans tenir de l’antique”
Critical Views on Gothic and Renaissance Interaction in Early Modern French Architecture between the 16th and 18th Centuries
Flaminia Bardati
5 The Development of Western and Central European Gothic Architecture around 1300 and Its Modern Historiography
Jakub Adamski
6 Did Jan Dlugosz Read Vitruvius?
On the Reception of the Myth about the Natural Origins of Architecture in Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
Marek Walczak
7 Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal Oratory
Alice Klima
8 Conflicting Views
Designing the South Transept of Prague Cathedral
Jana Gajdošová
9 The Currency of the Gothic in the Carpathian Mountain Regions
Alice Isabella Sullivan
10 When Venus Met Godfrey
The Evocation of Gothic Antiquity in the Architecture of Venetian Cyprus
Michalis Olympios
11 Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo
Costanza Beltrami
12 Colonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Worlds in 16th-Century Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Paul Niell
Afterword: Unruly Gothic
Jacqueline E. Jung
Select Bibliography
Index
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney
Relativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic Architecture
Robert Bork
Part 1: Space and Reception: Western Perspectives
1 Late Gothic Medieval Imaginations in Jean Fouquet’s Grandes chroniques de France
Maile S. Hutterer
2 Reading Late Gothic Architecture
The Balustrades at Notre-Dame, Caudebec-en-Caux
Abby McGehee
3 The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style
Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey
Zachary Stewart
4 “Toutefois moderne, sans tenir de l’antique”
Critical Views on Gothic and Renaissance Interaction in Early Modern French Architecture between the 16th and 18th Centuries
Flaminia Bardati
Part 2: Experimentation and Innovation in Central Europe
5 The Development of Western and Central European Gothic Architecture around 1300 and Its Modern Historiography
Jakub Adamski
6 Did Jan Dlugosz Read Vitruvius?
On the Reception of the Myth about the Natural Origins of Architecture in Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages
Marek Walczak
7 Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal Oratory
Alice Klima
8 Conflicting Views
Designing the South Transept of Prague Cathedral
Jana Gajdošová
Part 3: Global Gothics on the Margins of Europe and Beyond
9 The Currency of the Gothic in the Carpathian Mountain Regions
Alice Isabella Sullivan
10 When Venus Met Godfrey
The Evocation of Gothic Antiquity in the Architecture of Venetian Cyprus
Michalis Olympios
11 Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo
Costanza Beltrami
12 Colonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Worlds in 16th-Century Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Paul Niell
Afterword: Unruly Gothic
Jacqueline E. Jung
Select Bibliography
Index
Research institutes, academic libraries, specialists, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students interested in late medieval architecture, especially Gothic architecture, as well as issues related to periodization, style, and art historiography.