| Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque Contributor(s): O'Keefe, T. (Author), Hodges, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0715634348 ISBN-13: 9780715634349 Publisher: Bristol Classical Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. Coined to express the indebtedness of the artistic culture of this period to the Classical past, it has been in continuous use for two centuries and has outlived other paradigms in the study of medieval culture. The study of Romanesque as a stylistic phenomenon is today almost exclusively the preserve of art historians, particularly in the English-speaking world. In this polemical book ???the Romanesque???, especially as applied to architecture, is subjected to a long overdue, theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. The main aim is to liberate the buildings in question from the exclusive grip of unimaginative, uncritical, and ideologically-suspect, scholarship. The book's principal interpretative argument is that the pan-European corpus of buildings described as Romanesque is a product of the fragmentation of the heritage of romanitas in the 1000s and 1100s, rather than a product of its renaissance. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 936.03 |
| Series: Duckworth Debates in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.21" W x 8.44" (0.69 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the visual-artistic and architectural cultures of this period to their Classical antecedents, the term has survived two centuries of increasingly sophisticated readings of the relevant medieval buildings and objet d'art. The study of Romanesque as a stylistic phenomenon is now almost exclusively the preserve of art historians, particularly in the English-speaking world. Here 'the Romanesque' is subjected to a long overdue, theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. The ideological foundations and epistemological boundaries of Romanesque scholarship are critiqued, and the constructs of 'Romanesque' and 'Europe' are deconstructed, and alternative strategies for interpreting Romanesque's constituent material are mapped out. This book should, at the very least, illuminate the need for debate. |