Brepols, 2007. — 392 p. — (Ritus et Artes 3). Medieval cathedrals and the various practices connected to them form an important and complex part of the European cultural heritage. The buildings themselves and their reception into the modern arts ensure their presence within today's cultural memories and sensibilities. In the mid-twelfth century, a new archbishop's seat was...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. — 349 p. — (Gennadeion Monographs IV). First published in 1953, this book presents a description of 16 of the larger medieval fortresses in the Peloponnese, occupied by the Venetians between 1685 and 1715. It is also a beautifully written celebration of some of Greece's most striking, but also least studied, architectural...
Harvard University Press, 1927. — 288 p. The early mediaeval architecture of Florence, of which the Baptistery and the church of San Miniato are the most important examples, is a very special development and distinct in many ways from the contemporary architecture of other principal Tuscan centres, as Pisa or Lucca. It is confined to a restricted area, for, with the exception...
Marie Leidorf, 2009. — 388 S. — (Archäologie und Geschichte im Ostseeraum 6). Der geografische Schwerpunkt der Publikation, hervorgegangen aus einer international besetzten Tagung am Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, lag erklärtermaßen auf dem Südwesten der Ostseeregion mit dem eigentlichen Kernbereich Mecklenburg und Pommern. Wie der einführende Beitrag von Felix...
Translated in English by Kendall Wallis. — Columbia University Press, 2005. — 354 p. 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...
Anaya, 1990. — 97 p. — (Biblioteca Básica de Arte, Monografías). A lo largo de la Edad Media se fue configurando uno de los espacios más significativos de la arquitectura occidental: el monasterio. El monasterio se constituyó como un microcosmos, autosuficiente y aislado del tráfago mundano, donde unos hombres organizaban su vida enfocándola hacia la meditación, el trabajo y la...
Sesto Fiorentino, 2021. — 249 p. — (ARCHIMED - Architettura Medievale 1). Fin dalla metà del XIII secolo la presenza degli Ordini mendicanti diventa elemento caratterizzante della città medievale. Questo fenomeno sempre più esteso, che si consolida progressivamente nei decenni seguenti, raggiugendo l’apice nel corso del Trecento, provoca un acceso dibattito all’interno delle...
25th Anniversary Edition. — DK Publishing, 2019. — 34 р. — ISBN 9780241379790, 0241379792. History comes alive in this incredible children's illustrated book about castles. Slicing through different areas of a medieval fortress, extraordinary views reveal the people busy inside, and preparing for battle as an enemy army approaches. Packed with facts, you'll find out what it...
2. durchgesehene Auflage. — Darmstadt: WBG Academic, 2019. — 721 S. Ob mächtige freie Reichsstadt oder kleine landesherrliche Stadt - allen diesen Siedlungen gemein und geradezu konstitutiv war die Wehrhaftigkeit, die Stadtmauer. Thomas Billers Werk ist die erste systematische und zugleich umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zur mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung überhaupt. In einem...
WBG Academic, 2019. — 721 S. Ob mächtige freie Reichsstadt oder kleine landesherrliche Stadt – allen diesen Siedlungen gemein und geradezu konstitutiv war die Wehrhaftigkeit, die Stadtmauer. Thomas Billers Werk ist die erste systematische und zugleich umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zur mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung überhaupt. In einem systematischen Teil behandelt Biller...
Philipp von Zabern, 2016. — 361 S. Ob mächtige freie Reichsstadt oder kleine landesherrliche Stadt allen diesen Siedlungen gemein und geradezu konstitutiv war die Wehrhaftigkeit, die Stadtmauer. Thomas Billers Werk ist die erste systematische und zugleich umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zur mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung überhaupt. In einem systematischen Teil behandelt Biller...
Philipp von Zabern, 2016. — 362 S. Ob mächtige freie Reichsstadt oder kleine landesherrliche Stadt allen diesen Siedlungen gemein und geradezu konstitutiv war die Wehrhaftigkeit, die Stadtmauer. Thomas Billers Werk ist die erste systematische und zugleich umfassende Gesamtdarstellung zur mittelalterlichen Stadtbefestigung überhaupt. In einem systematischen Teil behandelt Biller...
2. durchgesehene und korrigierte Auflage. — WBG Theiss, 2019. — 175 S. Die Templer und ihre Burgen stellt dieses Buch ausführlich und realistisch vor. Ist der Templerorden bis heute Quelle der Faszination und zahlreicher Mythen, räumt Thomas Biller hier mit den phantastischen Behauptungen und Spekulationen auf. Er gibt einen detaillierten Einblick in Struktur und Geschichte des...
2. durchgesehene und korrigierte Auflage. — WBG Theiss, 2019. — 175 S. Die Templer und ihre Burgen stellt dieses Buch ausführlich und realistisch vor. Ist der Templerorden bis heute Quelle der Faszination und zahlreicher Mythen, räumt Thomas Biller hier mit den phantastischen Behauptungen und Spekulationen auf. Er gibt einen detaillierten Einblick in Struktur und Geschichte des...
University of California Press, 2024. — 265 p. — (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures). How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new...
Oxford University Press, 1957. — 116 p. A brief description of two parts of a Medieval castle, how they were built, and the social structure surrounding the building.
Oxford University Press, 1967. — 121 p. On 15 July 1099 the warriors of First Crusade took Jerusalem, and for nearly two hundred years the Crusaders retained their hold on at least a part of the Holy Land. Their churches, such as that of the Holy Sepulchre, and their magnificent castles, like Krak des Chevaliers, are outstanding monuments to this phase of history. Mr. Boase,...
E. de Boccard, 1969. — 182 p. L'enquête d'Antoine Bon à travers le Péloponnèse a été menée avec un soin minutieux. L'exposé qu'il fait du résultat est méthodique, clair, précis, à la fois prudent et judicieux dans ses conclusions. Les plans, les profils et les photographies de l'album viennent encore l'éclairer. Nous possédons enfin l'ouvrage complet et solide — un véritable...
E. de Boccard, 1969. — 746 p. L'enquête d'Antoine Bon à travers le Péloponnèse a été menée avec un soin minutieux. L'exposé qu'il fait du résultat est méthodique, clair, précis, à la fois prudent et judicieux dans ses conclusions. Les plans, les profils et les photographies de l'album viennent encore l'éclairer. Nous possédons enfin l'ouvrage complet et solide — un véritable...
Laterza, 1997. — 776 p. Dalla rinascenza carolingia alle grandi creazioni pre-romaniche e romaniche, dalle cattedrali gotiche al Quattrocento fiorentino. Le diverse opere - da quelle più note a quelle spesso ignorate - sono documentate da un ricco apparato illustrativo e analizzate sia sotto il profilo tecnico costruttivo sia in relazione ai contesti di cultura urbana.
Routledge, 2016. — 259 p. — (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art 8). The contributors to this book are among those at the forefront of the emergence of new critical perspectives and new technologies. Several of the essays present dramatic reinterpretations of canonical monuments; consider broader methodological issues such as the applications...
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2019. — 128 p. — ISBN13: 978-0762497119. On April 15, 2019, the world looked on in horror as the Notre Dame Cathedral was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire. Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral offers a fascinating look back at nearly nine centuries of this landmark building that has stood as silent witness to some of the most...
Jaca Book, 2021. — 367 p. — (Monumenta Vaticana Selecta). Il volume di Hugo Brandenburg, pubblicato per la prima volta da Jaca Book nel 2004, è diventato un’opera di riferimento internazionale sulle prime chiese di Roma, straordinario fenomeno edilizio che, a seguito dell’editto di Milano del 313 emanato da Costantino e dal coreggente Licinio, rese Roma il primo centro di...
Heyne, 1979. — 188 S. — (Heyne Stilkunde 14). Die frühchristliche Basilika als monumentaler eigenständiger Kultbau ist eine Schöpfung der konstantinischen Zeit Dieser für die Antike neuartige Typus des Kultbaues, der uns zum ersten Mal in den von Kaiser Konstantin dem Großen (reg. 313-37) gestifteten Großbauten S. Giovanni in Laterano und S. Pietro in Vaticano in Rom...
Bracken Books, 1985. — 400 p. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone with a serious interest in medieval English architecture and building. It must be admitted, as a prior reviewer pointed out, that this is not an easy read and that the way in which the photos are distributed does make for a great deal of awkward back-and-forth page flipping. The book covers almost...
University of Wales Press, 2015. — 288 p. Abbeys and Priories of Medieval Wales is the first comprehensive, illustrated guide to the religious houses of Wales from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries. It offers a thorough introduction to the history of the monastic orders in Wales (the Benedictines, Cluniacs, Augustinians, Premonstratensians, Cistercians, the military orders and...
Shire, 2014. — 338 p. — (Shire Library, Book 718). By the end of the medieval period, Britain’s churches already had an architectural heritage of one thousand years, much of which remains on view today. This guide by architectural historian Jon Cannon uses high-quality photographs and diagrams to help us to analyze the leading changes in style from the Anglo-Saxon period,...
Shire, 2014. — (Shire Library, Book 718).
By the end of the medieval period, Britain’s churches already had an architectural heritage of one thousand years, much of which remains on view today. This guide by architectural historian Jon Cannon uses high-quality photographs and diagrams to help us to analyze the leading changes in style from the Anglo-Saxon period, through the...
Captivating History, 2020. — 68 p. If you want to discover the captivating history of Notre-Dame de Paris, then keep reading. It was with horror and sadness that the people of the world opened their social media or switched on their televisions on April 15th, 2019, only to see terrifying pictures of smoke and flames roaring around one of the most iconic outlines in France: that...
Il Mulino, 2016. — 138 p. Una reggia, un monumento celebrativo, un luogo di culto? L'appassionante enigma di Castel del Monte sembra fare tutt'uno con la personalità di colui che lo fece costruire, Federico II: imperatore cristiano, illuminista ante litteram, tiranno politico e legislatore egualitario, cultore delle scienze ed esoterista. Nella vicenda dell'Italia meridionale e...
Brepols, 2014. — 458 p. — (Mediterranean nexus 1100-1700 2). During the period of Latin rule on Cyprus (1191-1571), Famagusta went from being a small fishing village to a populous, cosmopolitan center of international trade by the early fourteenth century. After the fall of Acre in 1291 the Lusignan kings of Cyprus, now also kings of Jerusalem, made Famagusta a quasi...
Dosde, 2016. — 107 p. Devised in the 11th century as a fortress to protect the Muslim authorities, the Alcazar of Seville is the oldest royal palace in use in Europe. The long drawn-out history of this singular monumental ensemble is reflected in this book on the Alcazar of Seville, one of the most comprehensive works published on this masterpiece of architecture. This book on...
Brepols, 2011. — 396 p. La société seigneuriale du bas moyen âge repose sur un ensemble de droits et d'obligations associant étroitement maîtres des lieux, sols et paysans. Les travaux et les jours y sont rythmés par l'exercice de pouvoirs et le poids de contraintes, mais aussi par des repères communs. La demeure seigneuriale, le château est de ceux-là. " Résidence fortifiée...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 212 p. Tra Esino e San Vicino offre una lettura completamente nuova dell'architettura religiosa che, a cavallo tra il romanico e il gotico, si afferma al centro delle Marche, in un'area denominata Valle di S. Clemente. Qui, a partire dall'XI secolo, si assiste ad una straordinaria fioritura di insediamenti costituiti da abbazie, eremi, pievi, di cui spesso...
Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1931. — 61 s. Elbing Geschichte beginnt mit einem Vorspiel im un gewissen Dämmerlicht des frühen Mittelalters. Wulfstan, ein nordischer Seefahrer, erzählt um 890 nach Christus von einer großen Handelsstadt Truso im Preußenlande. An einem See lag sie und war auf dem Ilfingfluß vom Estenmeer, dem Frischen Haff, mit Schiffen zu erreichen....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 594 S. — (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie 22; Corpus Cosmatorum II, 3). Nur noch wenige der vielen hundert Kirchen Roms sind in ihrem heutigen Erscheinungsbild mittelalterlich geprägt. Die Autoren erschließen daher den ehemaligen Bestand auch anhand bildlicher und schriftlicher Quellen. Schwerpunkte liegen dabei auf der...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. — 519 S. — (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie 20; Corpus Cosmatorum II, 1). Erstmals werden die hochmittelalterlichen Kirchen der Stadt Rom in einem wissenschaftlichen Katalog vorgestellt. Standen lange Zeit die frühchristlichen und frühmittelalterlichen Bauten im Vordergrund des Interesses, so hat sich in den letzten...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. — 434 S. — (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie 21; Corpus Cosmatorum II, 2). Der zweite Band des Katalogs der hochmittelalterlichen Kirchen in Rom ist der päpstlichen Kathedrale S. Giovanni in Laterano gewidmet, der von Konstantin begründeten ersten christlichen Basilika. Erstmals entsteht anhand der Schrift- und Bildquellen...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 256 p. — (Oxford History of Art). Medieval architecture comprises much more than the traditional image of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry. A great variety of buildings--synagogues, halls, and barns--testify to the diverse communities and interests in western Europe in the centuries between 1150 and 1550. This book looks at their...
Carocci, 2015. — 334 p. Il libro esamina questioni rilevanti, e per certi versi inedite, relative all'organizzazione dei cantieri di costruzione nel Medioevo: dal contesto sociale al reperimento dei fondi, dal concepimento del progetto architettonico ai materiali impiegati per la realizzazione delle grandi cattedrali, fino ai procedimenti costruttivi più in uso in epoca...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2020. — 111 p. — (Studia Archaeologica 237). Il governo senese dedicò, tra il XIII e il XIV secolo, un' attenzione particolare alle fonti pubbliche e agli acquedotti, soprattutto in considerazione del fatto che la città, priva di corsi d' acqua naturali, aveva un approvvigionamento idrico particolarmente difficoltoso. Accomunate da un accurato...
Archäologischer Dienst des Kantons Bern, 2022. — 314 S. — (Hefte zur Archäologie im Kanton Bern 11/Cahiers d'archéologie du canton de Berne 11). Das Priorat Rüeggisberg gehört zu den eindrücklichsten Denkmälern der Cluniazenser in der Schweiz. Die Klosteranlage wurde 1938–1947 durch Hans R. Hahnloser und 1988–2021 in mehreren Etappen durch den Archäologischen Dienst des Kantons...
Routledge, 2016. — 247 p. — (Liturgy, Worship and Society). In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are crucial to a proper understanding of ecclesiastical architecture of all periods, and...
Walter de Gruyter, 1961. — 298 S. — (Veröffentlichungen der Berliner Historischen Kommission 2). Die vorliegende Studie wurde unter dem Titel 'Die Bauhütte von Chorin und die märkische Backsteinarchitektur bis zum Ende der Askanischen Herrschaft' im Mai 1939 als Dissertation von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Berlin angenommen. Den beiden Referenten, Geheimrat...
Oxbow Books , 2016. — 401 p. The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued to grow and the palace-fortress was in the...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 352 p. The Hundred Years’ War between England and France is a story of an epic conflict between two nations whose destinies became inextricably entwined throughout the later Middle Ages. During that time the balance of architectural power moved from religious to secular domination, the Gothic form continued to grow and the palace-fortress was in the...
Jean-Paul Gisserot, 2003. — 132 p. La France est probablement le pays européen dont les vestiges médiévaux sont les mieux conservés, et donnent lieu à de nombreuses études. L’architecture romane et l’architecture gothique sont présentes sur l’ensemble du territoire, tant sur des bâtiments religieux que sur des maisons, des hôtels… Alain Erlande-Brandenburg nous en offre un...
Laurenziana, 1982. — 152 p. Troia Cathedral is the cathedral of Troia in Apulia, Italy, dedicated to the Assumptio of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Built in the first quarter of the 12th century, it is reckoned a masterpiece of Apulian Romanesque architecture and is particularly noted for the rose window and the bronze doors of the west front.
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 243 p. — (BAR International Series 2680). Local architectural heritage is an expression of a long-lasting circle of traditions and oral knowledge fostered from one generation to another and revealed through simple or complex architectural realities. It is also a manifestation of economic and social impact on the landscape. Given this assumption, this...
Princeton University Press, 1984. — 322 p. From their arrival in England in 1128 to the end of the twelfth century, the Cistercians established fifty monasteries, including some of the largest and most famous abbeys in the country. The author traces the evolution of Cistercian architecture in England during the this period and explains it as a manifestation both of the order's...
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 215 p. — (BAR International Series 2911). Durante la expansión de los reinos cristianos por la Península Ibérica en la Edad Media se produjo un cambio en las normas y costumbres sociales devenidas de un doble proceso de conquista y colonización. La arquitectura será una manifestación donde expresar los deseos y necesidades de la nueva sociedad cristiana....
BAR Publishing, 2018. — 215 p. — (BAR International Series 2911). Durante la expansión de los reinos cristianos por la Península Ibérica en la Edad Media se produjo un cambio en las normas y costumbres sociales devenidas de un doble proceso de conquista y colonización. La arquitectura será una manifestación donde expresar los deseos y necesidades de la nueva sociedad cristiana....
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 384 p. This important addition to the literature is the first overall study of the architecture of Norman England since Sir Alfred Clapham's English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest (1934). Eric Fernie, a recognized authority on the subject, begins with an overview of the architecture of the period, paying special attention to the...
Firenze University Press, 2020. — 247 p. — (Europe in between 1). Questo volume affronta il tema dell'architettura ecclesiastica delle fondazioni nemanidi del XII secolo (Madre di Dio, San Nicola, San Giorgio) studiando le scelte progettuali della committenza e di maestranze di differente provenienza culturale. Le tecniche costruttive dei monumenti sono viste come strumento...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1959. — 152 p. This book is an Introduction only. An introductory volume however should introduce a reader not only to the subject about which the book has been written, but to the literature of the subject also. This has been attempted in two ways: by the bibliography at the end ofthe book, and by numerous footnotes giving references to other...
Brepols, 2007. — 231 p. — (Architectura Medii Aevi 1). The theme of the book is the origin of Late Gothic architecture in Europe around the year 1300. It was then that Gothic ecclesiastical architecture graduated from a largely French into a wholly European phenomenon with new centres of art production (Cologne, Florence, York, Prague, Krakow) and newly-empowered institutions:...
Walter de Gruyter, 2004. — 456 S. — (Scrinium Friburgense 17). Die Monographie untersucht den früh- und hochgotischen Kirchenbau in der Westschweiz und hat als erste umfassende Darstellung dieses Themas den Charakter eines Handbuchs. Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte sind die Aufarbeitung der Entstehungsgeschichte von gut 50 erhaltenen oder archäologisch nachweisbaren Bauten, die...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. — 192 p. A foremost authority on French chateaux traces their development from the Roman fort, through Norman construction to the elegance of the Plantagenets.
Mondadori, 1961. — 196 p. Quando si constata che in duecentocinquant'anni, dalla fine del Duecento al principio del Cinquecento, la tecnica edilizia non ha fatto alcun progresso, ci si può stupire. Il gotico fiammeggiante non è che il risultato di una decorazione superficiale applicata ad un'ossatura tecnica perfezionata dall'XI al XIII secolo. Per duecentocinquant'anni i...
Seuil, 1980. — 134 p. L'histoire médiévale de l'Europe est marquée par le spectaculaire développement de l'architecture religieuse, lui-même lié au destin des ordres monastiques. Du XIe au XIIIe siècle, en France, en Angleterre, en Allemagne, en Espagne, en Italie, ailleurs encore, les bâtisseurs européens ont inventé et appliqué un ensemble complexe de techniques pour parfaire...
Grove Press, 1961. — 196 p. Explores the political, financial, and spiritual role of the churchmen who inspired the construction of Chrtres, Reims, Saint-Denis, Notre-Dame de Paris, and other equally beautiful but less-known churches and cathedrals; illustrated throughout.
Harper & Row, 1984. — 182 p. Medieval Europe witnessed the spectacular flowering of religious architecture. In this illustrated portrait of an age, Jean Gimpel gives an account of astonishing feats of engineering and artistry. He explores the political, financial, and spiritual role of the men who inspired such cathedrals as Canterbury, Chartres and Notre Dame. The author...
Prestel, 1998. — 248 p. In the south of Italy stands one of the most beautiful and fascinating castles of the Middle Ages, commissioned by the brilliant Emperor Frederick II of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. Castel del Monte is unique in the history of art and architecture, and the mystery surrounding its function and meaning has inspired the most varied theories, most of which are...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 337 p. In 1406 a young Venetian nobleman, Marin Contarini, married into another ancient patrician clan. His wife's family owned an old palace on the Grand Canal. Contarini demolished the old palace and, in 1421, he began to build the Ca d'Oro, his 'House of Gold'. This 1993 book tells the history of the building of the palace over a period of...
Arc Humanities Press, 2022. — 127 p. The book presents the panorama of social, cultural, and religious changes in the states of the Piast, Přemyslid, and Arpad dynasties. Major change occurred in the tenth century and again at the turn of the eleventh century. Given the scarcity of written sources, the author employs an analysis of architectural forms which she applies to...
Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, 1982. — 346 S. — (Materialien zur Baugeschichte 2). Im vorliegenden Band "Die Architektur des Mittelalters", der den Zeitraum vom Beginn frühchristlich-byzantinischer Kultur bis zur Gotik einschließlich in seinen wichtigen Stromungen, deren Ursachen und Auswirkungen zu erfassen sucht, wurde aus Gründen besserer Verständlichkeit das Schwergewicht auf die...
Brill, 2009. — 634 p. — (The Medieval Mediterranean 80). This is a broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. The heavy footprint of Roman civic and religious architecture helped provide attractive and luxurious building materials, re-used to construct...
Vieweg Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993. — 404 S. Wer sich ein Bild von der Baugeschichte des Mittelalters, vom Reichtum des mehr oder weniger Erhaltenen, Umgebauten, Zerstörten, Rekonstruierten machen will, muß gewöhnlich hunderte von Einzeldarstellung konsultieren. Architektur des Mittelalters geht in seiner Kompaktheit und Vielschichtigkeit weit über eine Einführung in die Thematik...
Tübingen: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1967. — 278 S. + 131 Tafeln. - (Das deutsche Bürgerhaus; Bd. VIII). Die ehemaligen Provinzen Ost- und WestpreuBen, nach dem ersten Weltkriege stark beschnitten, nach dem zweiten dem Stammlande entzogen, hatten ihr Ruckgrat in den Niederlassungen des Deutschen Ordens. Das hier und in anderen Stadten ansassige Biirgertum ist in den Jahren 1944 und...
Michael Imhof Verlag, 2022. — 148 S. Auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Länder Estland und Lettland existierte vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts ein Verbund christlicher Kreuzfahrerstaaten unter der Führung des Deutschen Ordens und des Erzbischofs von Riga. Von dieser Epoche zeugen noch heute zahlreiche Denkmäler mittelalterlicher Baukunst – Burgen, Kirchen und Städte. In dem...
Kulturstiftung der deutschen Vertriebenen, 2018. — 294 S. Residenzen waren im späten Mittelalter zentrale Orte des herrschaftlichen Wohnens, der Repräsentation und der Landesverwaltung. Ihre steigende Bedeutung erhielten sie aufgrund des Wandels von der Reise- zur Residenzherrschaft während dieser Epoche. Seit vielen Jahren sind Residenzen Gegenstand intensiver Forschungen....
Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007. — 52 S. — (Meisterwerke der Architektur in Polen 1). St. Marien in Danzig (erbaut von 1343–1502) ist die größte aus Backstein errichtete Kirche des europäischen Mittelalters. Sie beeindruckt durch ihre Ausmaße, Ausstattung und kunsthandwerklichen Schätze. Der Führer gibt Einblicke in die Geschichte, die Architektur und die Kunstschätze der Marienkirche.
Michael Imhof Verlag, 2007. — 816 S. Im Preußenland, dem Gebiet zwischen Weichsel und Memel, bestand vom 13. bis zum frühen 16. Jh. der Staat des Deutschen Ordens. In der Zeit der Ordensherrschaft entstand eine reiche Architekturlandschaft, die vor allem durch ihre Burgen, eine Synthese aus Kloster und Befestigung, berühmt geworden ist. Daneben wurden fast 100 Städte gegründet,...
Marie Leidorf, 1995. — 272 S. — (Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Burgenvereinigung: Forschungen 2). Wohntürme sind wehrhafte, bewohnbare Türme mit Heizung, Abtritt, Fenstern und Räumen angemessener Grundfläche. Für das 14.-16. Jh. am Mittelrhein werden sie in einem Katalog erstmals vollständig mit den zugehörigen Schriftquellen erfaßt, beschrieben und z. T. neu datiert. Der...
Gebr. Mann, 1964. — 284 S. — (Frankfurter Forschungen zur Architekturgeschichte II). Wohl wurde seit langem eine Stilgeschichte der mittelalterlichen Stadt gefordert, über Ansätze dazu kam man aber bisher kaum hinaus. Zäher als auf anderen Gebieten der Architekturgeschichte hielt sich hier die Einteilung in Typen. So groß deren Hilfe sein mag, wenn man in eine kaum zu...
Routledge, 2016. — 442 p. Is the display of number and geometry in medieval religious architecture evidence of intended symbolism? This book offers a new perspective in the retrieval of meaning from architecture in the Greek East and the Latin West, and challenges the view that geometry was merely an outcome of practical procedures by masons. Instead, it attributes intellectual...
Bloomsbury, 2012 — 230 p. — ISBN 9781408171776, 1408171775. Overview Gothic cathedrals are astonishing feats of construction and engineering, from a period before steel frames and machine tools, breathtaking in their scale and grandeur even hundreds of years after these historic symbols of the Christian faith were built. Focusing on the golden age of cathedral construction, «...
Bloomsbury, 2012 — 230 p. — ISBN 9781408171776, 1408171775. Overview Gothic cathedrals are astonishing feats of construction and engineering, from a period before steel frames and machine tools, breathtaking in their scale and grandeur even hundreds of years after these historic symbols of the Christian faith were built. Focusing on the golden age of cathedral construction, «...
Bloomsbury, 2012 — 230 p. — ISBN 9781408171776, 1408171775. Overview Gothic cathedrals are astonishing feats of construction and engineering, from a period before steel frames and machine tools, breathtaking in their scale and grandeur even hundreds of years after these historic symbols of the Christian faith were built. Focusing on the golden age of cathedral construction, «...
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2015. — 209 S. — (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien 171). Anknüpfend an den kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs über Erinnerung wird im vorliegenden Band erstmals die Bedeutsamkeit der Tradition des Ortes für den mittelalterlichen Kirchenbau im deutsch-römischen Kaiserreich untersucht. Mit dem Trierer Dom und seiner Liebfrauenkirche, dem Magdeburger Dom und dem...
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2017. — 224 S. — (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien 192). In seiner zweiten Monographie über architektonische Erinnerungskultur begibt sich Hauke Horn auf die Suche nach Spuren der Vergangenheit im mittelalterlichen Kirchenbau. Erstmalig werden die materiellen, räumlichen und gestalterischen Relikte sowie Verweise der Bauwerke auf ihre Geschichte gesammelt,...
London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1919. — 370 p. Early edition of English Church Woodwork, A Study in Craftsmanship During the Mediaeval Period A.D.1250-1550 by F. E. Howard & F. H Crossley in the original publisher's cloth binding. Includes 217 illustrations including monochrome plates. First published in 1917, this is the uncommon second impression. Contents include Structural...
New Word City, 2017. — 153 р. Today, the great cathedrals of Europe stand as beautiful, imposing monuments - the pride of parishioners and the wonder of tourists. It is difficult for us now, even with all our engineering and architectural skills, to imagine the extraordinary ways these medieval houses of worship were constructed. Midway through the twelfth century, the building...
Michael Imhof, 2006. — 394 S. — (Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte 34). Die Arbeit gliedert sich nach einem kurzen Forschungsüberblick und den Vorgaben in der Architektur der Zisterzienserinnenklöster in drei große Abschnitte: Im umfangreichsten dritten Kapitel werden unter Verwendung der jüngsten Forschungsergebnisse die einzelnen Klöster in einem...
Pindar Press, 2007. — 601 p. John James is an Australian architect and medieval historian. Since 1969, he has been searching for the origins of the Gothic style, beginning with a five-year study of Chartres cathedral. At that time there were no coherent techniques for analysing the detailed construction history of existing stone structures. This he created. He expanded his...
Da Capo Press, 2004. — 324 p. The great walled castles of the medieval world continue to fascinate the modern world. Today, the remains of medieval forts and walls throughout Europe are popular tourist sites. Unlike many other books on castles, The Medieval Fortress is unique in its comprehensive treatment of these architectural wonders from a military perspective.The Medieval...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 242 p. This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the years during which the Crusaders had a permanent presence on the Levantine coast. The book opens with a discussion of previous studies of the subject, and of...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 29). The Association's 2004 conference focused mainly on the architecture and archaeology of the medieval diocese of Llandaff, comprising much of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Contributors consider Roman and early medieval south-east Wales, including surviving...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 29). The Association's 2004 conference focused mainly on the architecture and archaeology of the medieval diocese of Llandaff, comprising much of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Contributors consider Roman and early medieval south-east Wales, including surviving...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 278 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 25). This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on...
Boydell Press, 2023. — 278 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 25). This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges. While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on...
Brepols, 2004. — 432 p. — (Medieval Church Studies 11). What was it that gave medieval art and architecture its form and style? What is it that attracts people to medieval art and architecture, especially that of the Cistercians? What shaped medieval buildings and determined their embellishments - and what now determines the way we look at them? Some of the most intriguing...
2002. — 417 p. The present study examines four fortified complexes of Kos, namely the castles at Palio Pyli, Antimachia and Kefalos, and the small fortress at Kastelli Kefalou. They were all built in the medieval period (byzantine or hospitaller) and continued to be used well into modern times. These castles formed part of the island’s defences whose exact range is still...
Independently Published, 2021. — 193 p. La Sicilia, protagonista nel corso dei secoli di numerose dominazioni, conserva fortezze inespugnabili, innalzate per difendere i territori e i suoi abitanti. Sono, di fatto, più di duecento i castelli medievali isolani e visitarli tutti, per come meriterebbero, sarebbe pressoché impossibile. Proviamo a ricostruirne i tratti più...
Point De Vues, 2019. — 262 p. De nombreuses abbayes ont été fondées en Normandie au cours du XIe siècle, par le duc ou par ses grands vassaux. Elles sont confiées le plus souvent à des moines bénédictins. La conquête de l'Angleterre, en 1066, va changer la donne. Les établissements vont bénéficier d'une véritable manne financière, car leurs bienfaiteurs sont devenus les grands...
Collins Press, 2016. — 252 p. Round towers are the only form of architecture unique to Ireland. The remains of over seventy survive, widely distributed throughout the island, from Cork to Antrim, in some of the most beautiful and historic areas of the country. They include the iconic towers at Cashel in Co. Tipperary and Glendalough in Co. Wicklow, Ireland's most-visited...
Clarendon Press, 1989. — 154 p. This is a new edition (the first since 1936) of the classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to Western military architecture written by T.E. Lawrence in 1910. This volume reproduces Lawrence's text, drawings, and photographs; provides a new introduction, critical notes, and index; and reassesses in light of recent scholarship...
Colloque organisé à l'Institut de France le vendredi 12 décembre 2003. — Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004. — 151 p. — (Rencontres médiévales européennes 4). Les précédents colloques des Rencontres médiévales européennes ont renouvelé notre connaissance des origines de l’architecture gothique en mettant en évidence les liens qui existent entre le propos de Suger, tel qu’il a...
Theiss Verlag, 2002. — 213 S. Burgen und Ruinen prägen überall in Spanien das Landschaftsbild. Sie sind die steinernen Zeugen einer Zeit, in der zwei sehr unterschiedliche Kulturen, die muslimische und die christliche, um die Vormachtstellung auf der Iberischen Halbinsel stritten. Das Buch stellt die repräsentativen Wehrbauten und Palastburgen vor - von der Ankunft der Muslime...
McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011. — 336 p. During the Middle Ages, castles and other fortified buildings were a common feature of the European landscape. As central powers rose and fell, the insecurity of the times inspired a revival of fortifications first introduced in the Roman Empire. Despite limitations in construction techniques and manpower, medieval fortifications were...
Routledge, 2020. — 280 p. The Architecture of Medieval Churches investigates the impact of affective theology on architecture and artefacts, focusing on the Middle Ages as a period of high achievement of this synthesis. It explores aspects of medieval church and cathedral architecture in relation to the contemporary metaphysics and theology, which articulated an integrated...
The Boydell Press, 2016. — 446 p. The castles of the late medieval period represent some of the finest medieval monuments in Britain, with an almost infinite capacity to fascinate and draw controversy. They are also a source of considerable academic debate. The contents of this volume represent key works in castle scholarship. Topics discussed include castle warfare, fortress...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 81 p. — (Shire Library). Designed both to protect the their inhabitants of the towns they towered over and cow them into submission, castles dominated the landscape of Medieval England and Wales. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy of domination in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 81 p. — (Shire Library). Designed both to protect the their inhabitants of the towns they towered over and cow them into submission, castles dominated the landscape of Medieval England and Wales. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy of domination in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks...
Archaeopress, 2016. — 309 p. — (Archaeolingua Central European Archaeological Heritage Series 9). This book is the result of more than a dozen years of research in the field of the hitherto unstudied medieval settlement pattern of the Syrian coastal region in the 12th and 13th centuries. The conclusions presented in this work were reached with the combined use of several source...
Knjizevni krug Split, 2017. — 513 p. — (Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana 88). The present volume wants to represent Pre-Romanesque and Early Romanesque architecture in Dalmatia. Among all Croatian regions, Dalmatia has the longest urban, artistic and civil traditions, and with respect to the Early Medieval period it stands out due to both the quality of prominent examples of the...
Knjizevni krug Split, 2008. — 501 s. — (Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana 52). U razvitku umjetnosti na tlu Hrvatske ranosrednjovjekovno razdoblje ima posebno značenje. To je prvo razdoblje graditeljskoga i umjetničkoga stvaralaštva kojem su uz prethrvatsku populaciju nositelji bili i Hrvati. Po doseljenju iz pradomovine na jadransku obalu i u njezino zaleđe, oni su na kraju VIII....
Knjizevni krug Split, 2009. — 597 s. — (Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana 57). Edicija o ranosrednjovjekovnom graditeljstvu u Dalmaciji pod nazivom Dalmatia praeromanica započela je izlaziti u rujnu 2008. godine, kada je objelodanjen prvi svezak (Rasprava), s uvodnim dijelom i sintezom zaključaka. Nastavljajući istu ediciju u ovom svesku počinjemo s iznošenjem temeljne građe o...
Knjizevni krug Split, 2011. — 649 s. — (Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana 65). Trećom knjigom edicije Dalmatia praeromanica nastavlja se objavljivanje građe o ranosrednjovjekovnom graditeljstvu u Dalmaciji, u kojoj je dosad tiskana Rasprava (1. svezak) godine 2008. i prva od tri knjige korpusa arhitekture (2. svezak) godine 2009. U tom su svesku zahvaćeni ranosrednjovjekovni...
Knjizevni krug Split, 2013. — 517 s. — (Biblioteka Knjiga Mediterana 73). Korpusom predromanike i rane romanike na prostoru Južne Dalmacije, Bosne i Hercegovine i Crne Gore nadopunilo se objavljivanje ranosrednjovjekovne arhitekture Dalmacije u ediciji pod nazivom Dalmatia praeromanica. Edicija je započela 2008. godine Raspravom u 1. svesku, a nastavila se 2009. Korpusom...
University of Toronto Press, 1999. — 446 p. The aim of this study is to provide an architectural history of the medieval fabric of Rochester Cathedral, from its Saxon origins to the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII. The author places the development of the building in its artistic context by using comparisons with roughly contemporary buildings in order...
Yale University Press, 1987. — 338 p. — (Yale Publications in the History of Art 36). The Benedictine abbey of Farfa was one of the most important monastic centers of medieval Europe. As an imperial establishment, patronize and protected by Charlemagne and his successors yet situated only thirty miles northeast of Rome, Farfa was often found at the center of events involving...
Philipp von Zabern, 2007. — 356 S. — (Denkmalpflege und Forschung in Westfalen 45). Zur mittelalterlichen Klosterlandschaft um die Reichsabtei Corvey gehörte als jüngste Einrichtung das Zisterzienserinnenkloster Brenkhausen. Es war das einzige Frauenkloster unter den von Corvey ausgehenden Gründungen, zu denen das im 9. Jahrhundert errichtete Kollegiatstift St. Paul...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 396 p. — (Ars et Scientia 17). Die hochmittelalterlichen Fernstraßen nach Rom, allen voran die bekannte Via Francigena, dienten als multifunktionale Transferlinien der religiösen, politischen und künstlerischen Kommunikation. Entlang der italienischen Streckenabschnitte, an den brisantesten Kulminationspunkten des Konflikts zwischen dem...
Cornell University Press, 2003. — 330 p. — (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past). This lavishly illustrated book looks at the art and architecture of episcopal palaces as expressions of power and ideology. Tracing the history of the bishop's residence in the urban centers of northern Italy over the Middle Ages, Maureen C. Miller asks why this once...
H. Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1984. — 353 S. Mittelalterliche Bauwerke finden seit den Tagen der Romantik allgemeines Interesse. Sie werden mit hohem gesellschaftlichen Einsatz instandgesetzt, erhalten und gepflegt - und sie werden erforscht. Veränderungen unseres Stadtbilds, wachsende Beweglichkeit der Touristenströme, eindringlichere Fragen unserer Zeit nach dem geschichtlichen...
Akademie-Verlag, 1985. — 110 S. — (Abhandlungen der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig/Philologisch-historische Klasse 71.1). Architekturgeschichtliche Bedeutungsforschung Ein Problemaufriß Buticum als Conus Dei. Der Ostbereich der Großen Kirche von Centula Tafelteil
Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006. — 468 S. — (Berliner Beiträge zur Bauforschung und Denkmalpflege 4). Gegenstand der Arbeit ist eine übergreifende Darstellung zu Struktur und Funktion der Architektur mittelalterlicher Frauenklöster. Waren die Ausgangsbedingungen und das religiöse Grundkonzept für Mönche und Nonnen gleich, so unterschieden sich die realen Lebensformen in der...
A&C Black, 2001. — 421 p. The capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 signalled the beginning of an armed struggle in Palestine and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean which lasted until the fifteenth century. It was a war dominated by the building, securing and besieging of castles rather than by pitched battles. Kristian Molin covers the military history of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 746 S. — (Forschungen zur Kunstgeschichte und christlichen Archäologie 23; Corpus Cosmatorum II, 4). Die Autorinnen und Autoren rekonstruieren die Bau- und Ausstattungsgeschichte der Kirchen der Stadt Rom vom 11. Jahrhundert bis an die Wende zum 14. Jahrhundert anhand von Schrift- und Bildquellen sowie Grabungs- und Baubefunden. Im vierten Band der...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 209 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68177-359-9. From the author of The Norman Conquest and A Great and Terrible King comes a sweeping and stunning history of the most magnificent castles in Britain. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country’s most...
Pegasus Books, 2017. — 272 p. Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country’s most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 149 p. — (BAR International Series 1908). This study deals with the form and development of a single type of architectural ornament, ubiquitous from the late eleventh to the early thirteenth centuries in northwestern Europe. Chevron ornament, or three-dimensional zigzag, has been described as the single most characteristic moulding, or indeed feature of...
Warszawa: Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1988. — 235 s. Sztuka przedromańska . Architektura. Rzezba. Malarstwo książkowe. Rzemiosło artystyczne. Sztuka grodów i podgrodzi. Sztuka romańska. Sztuka wczesnoromańska do początku XII wieku Architektura. Malarstwo miniaturowe. Rzemiosło artystyczne. Sztuka romańska w XII wieku. Architektura. Rzezba ornamentalno-zoomorficzna. Rzezba figuralna....
Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1966. — 286 S. Burgen der Kreuzritter im Heiligen Land, auf Zypern und in der Ägäis. Die Kühnheit und die Ausmaße der Architektur der Burgen der Kreuzritter, die auf europäischem Boden kaum ihresgleichen besitzen, gehören zu den wesentlichen Grundlagen des ritterlichen Zeitalters unserer Geschichte. Es ist geraume Zeit her, daß die Wissenschaft sich mit...
McGraw-Hill, 1966. — 284 p. The castles of the Crusaders stand as monuments to adramatic period of human history, when Western Christendom, inspired by a curious mixture of religious fervour, greed and lust for power, set out to liberate the Holy Land from the infidels. The chain of fortifications extends from the shores of the Red Sea to the banks of the Euphrates, spanning...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. — 324 p. Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. — 326 p. Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral—one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe—is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral’s...
Barnes & Noble Books, 1998. — 117 p. — ISBN 0-7607-1024. In Castles and Fortresses, castle expert Robin Oggins disgusses the history and evolution of the castle from its modest beginnings through the war torn Middle ages to the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes bibliographical references.
Four Courts Press, 2021. — 241 p. Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for...
Tempus Publishing, 2004. — 180 p. The round tower is Irelands most distinctive medieval monument. This book explores the towers qualities as works of architecture as well as examining their relationships with other buildings at the sites on which they stand. The author suggests how the towers were employed in ceremonies and other ritualised activities of the Viking Age church...
Four Courts Press, 2015. — 332 p. — (Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History 18). The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval Ireland and its people, provided one knows how to read the evidence of their architecture. This book...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 417 p. — (BAR International Series 2949/Hypogean Archaeology: Research and Documentation of Underground Structures 14). Il Castello di Milano è un’opera medievale voluta dai Visconti e potenziata dagli Sforza. Oggi è sede di biblioteche, musei e raccolte d’arte, ma rimane una formidabile “macchina da combattimento”, dove hanno lavorato tra i migliori...
Jaca Book, 2019. — 288 p. — (Patrimonio artistico italiano). Questo volume presenta la Storia dell'Arte medievale con un approccio innovativo, incentrato sulle origini culturali, sul contesto storico e sui presupposti tecnici dell'opera artistica e architettonica. L'obbiettivo è di restituire il più fedelmente possibile le intenzioni di costruttori, artisti e committenti, il...
Granada Publishing, 1979. — 276 p. Most towns in England, not only places like York and Chester, have a mediaeval core. Even where the original buildings have disappeared, towns still show signs of the settlements that preceded them : local trades live in street names ; towns are still centred round castles and market places. Thus the older patterns of human geography subtly...
Guy Points, 2015. — 152 p. This book is for readers who wish to learn more about Anglo-Saxon church architecture and Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian stone sculpture. Intended for the student and non-specialist alike, as well as readers who already have some knowledge of the subjects covered, it bridges the divide between an academic approach and that of the interested...
Prisma Verlag, 1987. — 429 S. Neun historisch bedeutende Stätten und Städte sind es diesmal, die Pörtner als Kristallisationspunkte dienen für das bunte Panorama der zwei Jahrhunderte deutscher Geschichte zwischen 900 und 1100, in welchen das deutsche Reich politisch und territorial zur größten Machtt Zentraleuropas heranwuchs. Ereignisse und Gestalten eben dieser Zeit zu...
Archaeopress, 2020. — 169 p. Bar Locks and Early Church Security in the British Isles examines the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure or defensible from their earliest times until the later medieval period. In particular it examines the phenomenon of ‘bar locks’ which the author identifies in many different contexts throughout England, Wales,...
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 499 p. — (BAR British Series 578). This work follows the study of the ecclesiastical geology of almost all Anglo-Saxon religious sites throughout England. There, it proved possible to both understand and distinguish clearly obvious patterns in the use of stonework, to determine the use and value of specific rock types, and to illustrate diagnostic...
Citadelles & Mazenod, 1999. — 260 p. La cathédrale est le miroir du monde médiéval occidental, comme l'écrivait le grand historien d'art Émile Mâle. Au-dessus du moutonnement des toits, la haute masse de leurs tours et de leurs flèches signalent de loin le coeur ancien des villes d'Europe, de l'Italie à la Scandinavie, du Portugal à la Pologne. Dans la mémoire collective...
Ashgate Publishing, 2013. — 350 p. The sixteen studies brought together in this book (the second collection of Denys Pringle's articles) are the product of the many years that the author has spent investigating the material evidence for Latin settlement in Syria and Palestine in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Focusing on the building remains of churches and castles - and...
Ashgate Publishing, 2000. — 348 p. These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be challenged in the light of new archaeological...
Ashgate Publishing, 2000. — 348 p. These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be challenged in the light of new archaeological...
Ashgate Publishing, 2000. — 348 p. These studies examine the physical remains of Frankish settlement in Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries. In recent years the view that Frankish settlement was largely confined to the fortified urban centres and castles, with few westerners venturing into the open countryside, has come to be challenged in the light of new archaeological...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 174 p. This book contains a descriptive gazetteer of all the secular buildings (including industrial sites) known by their surviving remains to have existed within the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. The site descriptions take the form of brief notes with full bibliographical references and location maps, accompanied in most cases by...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 356 p. This is the first of a series of three volumes which are intended to present a complete corpus of all the church buildings in use in the crusader kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. Volume II completes the general topographical coverage begun in Volume I,...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 479 p. This is the second in a series of three volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings, of both the western and the oriental rites, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem for the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. The Corpus...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 533 p. This is the third in a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete Corpus of all the church buildings that were built, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. This volume deals exclusively with Jerusalem,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 337 p. This is the fourth and final volume in a series which presents a complete corpus of all the church buildings that were built, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem by the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. This volume deals with the major coastal cities of Acre...
Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2015. — 447 p. Die Stadt Göttingen beherbergt viele und wichtige mittelalterliche Kirchen. Das Panorama der Baugeschichten, der Nutzungen und der Formenvielfalt reicht vom 13. zum 16. Jahrhundert und sogar bis in die Gegenwart, da die Kirchen auch später immer wieder verändert worden sind. Die Kirchenbauten sind das sichtbarste Zeugnis einer längst...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 144 p. — (Limina/Limites: Archaeologies, histories, islands and borders in the Mediterranean 9). Lo studio è un'analisi storico archeologica di un'area territoriale comprendente l'Isola d'Elba, il Monte Pisano e la pianura limitrofa, attraverso la metodologia propria dell'archeologia "leggera": lettura stratigrafica degli elevati e lettura del paesaggio...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 113 р. Westminster Abbey is one of the most important and well-known medieval buildings in Europe but, despite being studied by generations of scholars, there is still much to learn about its history and architecture. The lantern over the centre of the church is a case in point. Edward the Confessor built a great tower here, which is depicted on the Bayeux...
BAR Publishing, 2014. — 195 p. — (BAR International Series 2672). This study focuses on the architectural landscape of the lower Valdarno area, which formerly belonged to the diocese of Lucca and in the 17th century formed the new diocese of San Miniato. Despite the distance from the Bishop, Lucca managed to keep the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of this area until the modern...
Atria Books, 2023. — 1056 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6908-4 Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James’s version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare’s plays, and Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation ball. Accessible,...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. — 199 p. Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has played a central role in French cultural identity. In the wake of the tragic fire of 2019, questions of how to restore the fabric of this quintessential French monument are once more at the forefront. This all-too-prescient book, first published in French in 2013, takes a...
Brepols, 2006. — 352 p. — (Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive 10). Actes du colloque international tenu à Poitiers du 16 au 19 septembre 2004 L’importance du stuc comme matériau et processus de décor a longtemps été ignorée. Les diverses contributions à ce colloque permettent, pour la première fois, d’en saisir la portée sur une longue durée. Avec ses originis antiques ou...
Walter de Gruyter, 1970. — 208 S. — (Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte 4). Die burgundische Architektur des ausgehenden n . und beginnenden 12. Jahrhunderts ist ihrem Bestand nach gut bekannt. Selbst ihr zerstörter Hauptbau, die grosse Abteikirche von Cluny, ist durch die Grabungen und Rekonstruktionsbemühungen von K. J . Conant zu einem anschaulichen Gegenstand mittelalterlicher...
Brill Fink, 2020. — VIII + 437 S. Der Autor legt die wachsende Bedeutung der Architektur im politischen Denken des Mittelalters dar. Er demonstriert, wie Architektur zu einer Grundlage politischen Denkens wurde und wie Architektur dieses Denken beeinflusste. Das Buch analysiert die grundlegenden Verbindungen von Politik und Architektur. In zwei Teilen wird die Rolle der...
Penn State Press, 2004. — 289 p. The medieval palaces of Venice are unlike those from anywhere else and they also survive in this equally unique city in far greater numbers. This well-presented study argues, however, that contrary to other opinions, the architecture of Venice was developed from that of northern and western Europe and not from that of Byzantium and Late...
Böhlau, 2013. — 498 S. Das vorliegende Buch ist die erste architekturhistorische Gesamtdarstellung der Baukunst des 13. Jahrhunderts in Österreich, einer Periode bedeutender geschichtlicher Umwälzungen in den österreichischen Ländern und zugleich Übergangszeit von der Baukunst der Romanik zur Gotik. Das Buch ist Ergebnis einer über 35jährigen Forschungstätigkeit des Autors auf...
Società editrice il Mulino, 2021. — 176 p. Il romanticismo ci ha lasciato in eredità un Medioevo pieno di castelli popolati di dame e cavalieri. Ma in effetti i castelli, insieme alle chiese, sono di fatto quanto è possibile ancora oggi osservare di quei secoli remoti. Opera del maggiore specialista della storia delle fortificazioni e della guerra medievale, questa mirabile...
BAR Publishing, 2004. — 297 p. — (BAR International Series 1291). In this work the author examines the Medieval and Post-Medieval Greek house as a container of material culture, and of functional and social activity, within the context of a changing socio-economic environment. The first three introductory chapters review a series of previous vernacular studies mainly from the...
Krems, 2000. — 158 S. — (Medium Aevum Quotidianum. Sonderband 8). Der nach 1150 im süddeutschen Raum schreibende Zisterzienser Idung von Prüfening, dessen Herkunft im Hirsauer Reformmilieu vermutet wird, legte in seinem fiktiven 'Dialogus inter Cluniacensem monachus et Cisterciensem de diversis utriusque Ordinis observantis' einem zisterziensischen Mönch folgende Bemerkung in...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 276 p. — (Oxford History of Art). The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the church spire, and the monastic cloister. By avoiding the traditional...
Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. — 191 p. The Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages are among the world's greatest architectural achievements. Looking up at the soaring vaulted ceiling of a Gothic church, it is impossible not to marvel at the seemingly unending design variations of these transcendent structures. Photographer David Stephenson, author of our best-selling book...
Brill, 2013. — xvii, 298 p., 96 ills. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 221/5; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 221/5). In Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society Maximilian Sternberg offers an account of the social functions of the built environment in medieval monasticism. Few medieval monuments hold so privileged a place in the...
Thames & Hudson, 1967. — 356 р. — ISBN: 050024054X. The achievements of the Romanesque style—often referred to in Britain as Saxon and Norman—can in many ways be more fully appreciated in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. No other country can boast such a magnificent series of cathedrals built between the late 11th century and 1300: Durham, Winchester, Ely, Peterborough,...
Brill, 2023. — 504 p. — (AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art). 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...
Batsford, 1997. — 156 p. — (Historic Scotland). The authoritative and engaging story of Scotland's Castles from the 12th to the 16th centuries, from mighty castles royal to tall storeys and poky dwellings. Despite their grand associations, Scottish castles were central to the lives of many Scots, of all social stations; castles were their work place, their place of worship,...
Hambledon Press, 1986. — 144 p. Arnold Taylor, the leading expert on the subject, provides an authoritative guide to the castles, begun between 1277 and 1295, in a short compass. He deals with their joint and individual features, dates, planning and construction.
Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 524 p. This work is a complete catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon fabric surviving in the churches of England. Together, the three volumes provide an invaluable resource for the study of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Volume I, a short introduction, is a survey of pre-Conquest architectural features and the reasons for designating them as...
Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 346 p. This work is a complete catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon fabric surviving in the churches of England. Together, the three volumes provide an invaluable resource for the study of Anglo-Saxon architecture. Volume I, a short introduction, is a survey of pre-Conquest architectural features and the reasons for designating them as...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 412 p. The summation of a lifetime's study, this volume presents a comprehensive and fully-illustrated analysis of Anglo-Saxon architecture that was widely acclaimed when it first appeared in 1978. The principal architectural features and ornament of the 267 Anglo-Saxon churches surveyed in Volumes I and II form Dr Taylor's raw material. Four...
Oxford University Press, 1912. — 380 p. In the late 12th and early 13th centuries, a scientific approach to castle defence emerged. This led to the proliferation of towers, with an emphasis on flanking fire. Many new castles were polygonal or relied on concentric defence – several stages of defence within each other that could all function at the same time to maximise the...
Anton Schroll & Co, 1958. — 247 S. Von der Turmburg der Ägypter und Syrer über die Burgusbauten und das Kastell der Römer (eine großartige Schlußapotheose der vorgeschichtlichen und antiken Ent wicklung und zugleich Ausgangspunkt und Vorbild für kommende Zeiten); vom romanischen Donjon bis zur mittelalterlichen Ritterburg und dem Familienturm in der Toscana führt die...
Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009. — 400 S. Burgen, Pfalzen, Kirchen und Klöster Kunst- und Architekturliebhaber können sich freuen: Endlich gibt es das große Handbuch zur mittelalterlichen Baukunst. Mittelalterliche Architektur ist außergewöhnlich vielseitig und prägend für unser Kulturerbe. Kirchen und Klöster, Burgen und Rathäuser, städtische und dörfliche Bauwerke...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 372 p. — (BAR International Series 2853/Serie Ibérica I). Este libro pretende contribuir al esclarecimiento de propiedades materiales, disposiciones visuales y aptitudes ceremoniales de una selección representativa de catedrales medievales, entendidas como patrimonio vertebral de la construcción de la compleja y plural identidad europea. Los análisis...
Riverside Book Company, 1999. — 180 p. The church that the Venetians built to house the body of St. Mark, taken by them from Alexandria, is famous the world over. They spared no expense, and employed the most skilled artisans, to create a monument to their faith in their patron saint and to their commercial and artistic glory. Mosaics, marbles, pavements, sculptures, icons and...
Brepols, 2020. — 176 p. — (Architectura Medii Aevi 13). Through careful analysis of the Romanesque cathedral of Molfetta (in Apulia, southern Italy), Williams demonstrates how the commercial boom of the medieval Mediterranean changed the way churches were funded, designed, and built. The young bishopric of Molfetta, emerging in an economy of long-distance trade, competed with...
Tiger of the Stripe , 2006. — 188 p. Since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597, Canterbury has been the very heart of the Church in England. The Saxon cathedral, much enlarged over the years, burnt down in 1067. Its replacement suffered a similar fate in 1174, to be rebuilt again. As a result, the modern visitor is presented with a confusing historical patchwork which needs...
Koenigstein im Taunus & Leipzig: K.R. Langewiesche, 1939 - 112 S.
На немецком языке. Одно из первых изданий книги о замках и укреплениях Немецкого ордена в Прибалтике. Готический шрифт.
Schirmer/Mosel, 1983. — 116 S. Die Burgen Spaniens, die dieser Bildband zeigt, sind Stein gewordene Zeugnisse fast eines ganzen Jahrtausends spanischer und europäischer Geschichte: maurische und christliche, westliche wie östliche, afrikanische und euro päische Elemente verschmelzen in diesen wuchtigen Archi tekturen auf einzigartige Weise. Sie belegen den Aufstieg und den...
Phoenix House, 1965. — 574 p. With frontispiece, 60 pages of half-tone plates, 32 pages of engravings and 117 illustrations in the text. From the grandest hall to the lowliest shelter Margaret Wood presents a fascinating and fully illustrated study of the evolution of the English medieval house. The period covered is from the Norman Conquest to 1540. The scope of entertaining,...
B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1994. — 212 p. One of a series of four books, this text surveys the architecture of Europe from 650 to 1550, covering the Romanesque and Gothic building style of the Middle Ages. The aim of this series is to provide a basic source of reference on the general evolution of architectural style and taste in different areas of Europe. Each volume uses a practical...
New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2010. — 699 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-11570-5. Writing the introduction for this book is a daunting task, not because of the books size, but because its chronological and geographic parameters are not those of a conventional account. The book aims at discussing developments in architecture over a span of twelve-and-a-half centuries, from late...
Cosmopolitan-Art, 2009. — 156 p. Având drept suport ştiinţific un repertoriu al fortificaţiilor medievale din secolele XIII-XVI din Banat această contribuţie ştiinţifică şi publicistică bilingvă abordează într-o manieră structurală problema surselor istorice şi a istoriografiei problemei, evidenţiind acumulările scrisului istoric în această chestiune, într-un spaţiu...
Друго издање. — Београд: Научна књига, 1962. — 353 с. Увод. Палеохришћанска епоха. Касноантичка хришћанска архитектура. Архитектура хришћанског Истока. Хришћанска архитектура у Горњој, Северној Месопотамији. Архитектура у области Мале Азије. Хришћанска архитектура у Сирији. Коптска архитектура. Архитектура Северне Африке. Јерменска и ђурђијанска архитектура. Византиска...
Тарту, 1960. — 142 с. — (Tartu riikliku ülikooli toimetised / Ученые записки Тартуского государственного университета 86). При изучении архитектуры Старой Ливонии XIII—XVI вв. мы очень часто встречаемся с проблемой борьбы между формами базилики и трехнефной зальной церкви. В 1928 году X. Челлин опубликовал свое исследование о связи трехнефных зальных церквей Эстонии с...
Екатеринбург: Российский государственный профессионально-педагогический университет (РГППУ), 2008. — 163 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8050-0307-4. На основе всестороннего изучения объемно-планировочных решений замковых построек Центральной Европы XIV-XVI вв., культурно-исторического взаимовлияния строительных традиций, а также развития военного искусства предпринята попытка исследовать...
Навчальний посібник. — Х.: ХНАМГ, 2008. — 249 с. Вступ. Архітектура Західної Європи ранньохристиянського та дороманського періоду (III –Х століття). Архітектура та містобудування Візантії (IV – XV століття). Архітектура Західної Європи романського періоду (XI – XII століття). Готика і готичні собори Франції (XIII – XIVстоліття). Архітектура готичного періоду в Німеччині,...
Харків: Mikko, 2010. — 160 с.
Замки, спорудженні сотні років тому, донині вражають своєю могутністю і величчю. Для того щоб зрозуміти, хто і для чого будував ці фортеці, потрібно уявити собі середньовічну Європу. Це були ледь освоєні, напівдикі землі; античні міста вже лежали в руїнах, а міські центри щойно зароджувалися. Відчуйте неповторний шарм середньовічної Європи завдяки...
Републички завод за заштиту споменика културе: Београд, 2010. — 212 с. — (Студије и монографије 17). Према Предговору, књига представља измењену и допуњену маг. тезу, која је под истим називом одбрањена на Арх. фак. у Београду, пред комисијом у саставу Јован Нешковић, Мирко Ковачевић и Нађа Куртовић Фолић.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 449 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4980-0. На основе оригинальных документальных источников А.Гамильтон Томпсон анализирует развитие общих принципов фортификационного зодчества Британии в Средние века. Рассматривая эволюцию искусства фортификации, автор подробно описывает оборонительные сооружения Британии на разных этапах истории: ранние земляные и деревянные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 449 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4980-0.
На основе оригинальных документальных источников А.Гамильтон Томпсон анализирует развитие общих принципов фортификационного зодчества Британии в Средние века. Рассматривая эволюцию искусства фортификации, автор подробно описывает оборонительные сооружения Британии на разных этапах истории: ранние земляные и деревянные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 449 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4980-0 На основе оригинальных документальных источников А.Гамильтон Томпсон анализирует развитие общих принципов фортификационного зодчества Британии в Средние века. Рассматривая эволюцию искусства фортификации, автор подробно описывает оборонительные сооружения Британии на разных этапах истории: ранние земляные и деревянные...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 449 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4980-0 На основе оригинальных документальных источников А.Гамильтон Томпсон анализирует развитие общих принципов фортификационного зодчества Британии в Средние века. Рассматривая эволюцию искусства фортификации, автор подробно описывает оборонительные сооружения Британии на разных этапах истории: ранние земляные и деревянные...
Рига: Зинатне, 1984. — 156 с. В монографии на основе новых данных, полученных в ходе археологических раскопок 1959-1980 гг. в г. Риге, впервые освещается проблема возникновения и первоначального развития городских жилищ на территории Прибалтики в XII-XIV вв. Рассмотрены как жилища Риги срубной конструкции, так и древнейшие фахверковые постройки и первые жилые каменные здания....
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