Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages - Couverture rigide

Binski, Paul

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520402995 ISBN 13 : 9780520402997

Editeur : University of California Press, 2024

Synopsis

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 approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Binski is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520402995
• ISBN 13: 9780520402997
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
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