Eastern Medieval Architecture

Author : Robert G. Ousterhout,Robert Ousterhout
Publisher : Onassis Series in Hellenic Cul
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190272739

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Eastern Medieval Architecture by Robert G. Ousterhout,Robert Ousterhout Pdf

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

Author : Heinrich L. Nickel
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006724564

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Medieval Architecture in Eastern Europe by Heinrich L. Nickel Pdf

This work defines "eastern Europe" as encompassing the "feudal states under the aegis of the Orthodox Church," which in present day includes Bulgaria, Rumania, Ygoslavia and parts of Russia. It includes monuments, basilicas, palaces and more from the 9th to 18th centuries.

Author : Robert Ousterhout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190272746

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Eastern Medieval Architecture by Robert Ousterhout Pdf

The rich and diverse architectural traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions are the subject of this book. Representing the visual residues of a "forgotten" Middle Ages, the social and cultural developments of the Byzantine Empire, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia, and the Middle East parallel the more familiar architecture of Western Europe. The book offers an expansive view of the architectural developments of the Byzantine Empire and areas under its cultural influence, as well as the intellectual currents that lie behind their creation. The book alternates chapters that address chronological or regionally-based developments with thematic studies that focus on the larger cultural concerns, as they are expressed in architectural form.

Author : DIANA. DARKE
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781911723479

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STEALING FROM THE SARACENS by DIANA. DARKE Pdf

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474411301

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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 by Patricia Blessing Pdf

Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004421370

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Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages focuses on how the heritage of Byzantium was continued and transformed alongside local developments in the artistic and cultural traditions of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Author : Arthur Kingsley Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : UOM:39015015862702

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Medieval Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter Pdf

Author : Deborah Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0300085044

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Venice & the East by Deborah Howard Pdf

As European cities such as Venice looked further afield, not only for material goods, but also for artistic inspiration and information on new technologies and ideas, they inevitably came into contact with a great many new cultures. In this book Deborah Howard explores the experiences of Venetian merchants and travellers in the East and the influences that were brought to the city from the Islamic cultures encountered. The study is based on the literature of travellers, objects, buildings and architecture, documents and manuscripts, and takes a thematic look at the city: San Marco, the Merchant City, palaces, Palazzo Ducale, the Pilgrim City.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047430070

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Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110321517

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East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.

Author : Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695632

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Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions by Maria Alessia Rossi,Alice Isabella Sullivan Pdf

This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework of this volume provides a holistic view of the visual culture of these regions by addressing issues of transmission and appropriation, as well as notions of cross-cultural contact, while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe.

Author : Michael J. K. Walsh,Peter W. Edbury,Nicholas S.H. Coureas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351918640

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Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta by Michael J. K. Walsh,Peter W. Edbury,Nicholas S.H. Coureas Pdf

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem after the fall of Acre in 1291, symbolised both the sophistication and permanence of the French society that built it. From the port radiated impressive commercial activity with the major Mediterranean trade centres, generating legendary wealth, cosmopolitanism, and hedonism, unsurpassed in the Levant. These halcyon days were not to last, however, and a 15th century observer noted that, following the Genoese occupation of the city, 'a malignant devil has become jealous of Famagusta'. When Venice inherited the city, it reconstructed the defences and had some success in revitalising the city's economy. But the end for Venetian Famagusta came in dramatic fashion in 1571, following a year long siege by the Ottomans. Three centuries of neglect followed which, combined with earthquakes, plague and flooding, left the city in ruins. The essays collected in this book represent a major contribution to the study of Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta and its surviving art and architecture and also propose a series of strategies for preserving the city's heritage in the future. They will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Gothic, Byzantine and Renaissance art and architecture, and to those of the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as the Military Orders. After an introductory chapter surveying the history of Famagusta and its position in the cultural mosaic that is the Eastern Mediterranean, the opening section provides a series of insights into the history and historiography of the city. There follow chapters on the churches and their decoration, as well as the military architecture, while the final section looks at the history of conservation efforts and assesses the work that now needs to be done.

Author : Nancy Y. Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351960854

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Ad Quadratum by Nancy Y. Wu Pdf

The purpose of the project is to provide the most up-to-date survey on issues dealing with practical geometry and how it might have been applied in the design of medieval architecture. Chronologically, the topics cover a wide span - from early Medieval through Late Gothic. Geographically, the monuments under discussion range from Early Medieval Florence through Carolingian Germany, Crusader Cyprus, Romanesque France and Gothic England. The applications of both geometry and metrology are considered in this volume, often with illustrations generated by computer-assisted design (CAD) software. The project therefore offers recent scholarship in the field, as well as cutting-edge technology which helps propel the pursuit of such studies. To this end, the project is the first of its kind both in terms of its focus and its comprehensiveness. Such a project is sorely needed to introduce this highly specialized discipline to other historians of art, history, and science of the Middle Ages, as well as historians in most humanistic areas.

Author : Michalis Olympios
Publisher : Architectura Medii Aevi
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 2503536069

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Building the Sacred in a Crusader Kingdom by Michalis Olympios Pdf

At the eastern confines of Latin Christendom, between the Levantine Crusader states, Byzantium, and Islam, the Lusignan kingdom of Cyprus (1192-1489) was home to a rich and diverse array of Gothic ecclesiastical structures, significant remains of which are still to be seen today. From the grand Latin cathedrals of Nicosia and Famagusta, the austere churches of the mendicant orders, and the magnificent monastic buildings of Bellapais Abbey to the imposing Greek and Nestorian cathedrals of Famagusta and the churches of the Eastern Christians (Armenians, Melkites, Maronites, etc.), Cypriot Gothic architecture evolved to serve the needs of the island's multi-cultural and multi-creedal society. This new study is based on original research on the physical fabric of Cyprus' Gothic ecclesiastical edifices, on a thorough exploitation of the published archaeological data, and on a new reading of the extant documentary sources (some of which are published here for the first time) to offer a fresh account of the development and place of Cypriot Gothic in the architectural history of medieval Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. It proposes to do so by re-evaluating and re-contextualizing the ambitions of the patrons and the choices (and compromises) of the master masons responsible for this unique monumental heritage. The conclusions reached in this study have far-reaching implications for the history of Gothic architecture on the island and the surrounding region. The cathedral of Nicosia, the kingdom's capital, re-emerges as the single most important architectural undertaking of the period. Not only is it singled out as the site where full-fledged Gothic was first introduced in the Latin East in the early thirteenth century, it is also identified as the chantier where French Rayonnant made its Cypriot debut in the latter part of the century, nearly thirty years before Famagusta Cathedral was renovated in an up-to-date Rayonnant style in c. 1300. With the rise of the royal port-town of Famagusta after the fall of Acre (1291), two major architectural centres developed side by side, leading parallel and seldom converging lives. The distinctiveness of their styles is thrown into higher relief by the creation of a 'Crusader Revival' architectural idiom unique to Famagusta by the 1360s, to visually complement the crown's crusading policies. The study of lesser churches in the two royal towns, as well as the major non-urban monastic complex, Bellapais Abbey, demonstrates how the ideas and designs introduced at the two cathedrals were adopted and adjusted to the tastes and needs of a diverse local clientele, ranging from the king and the mendicant orders to the Greeks and Eastern Christians.

Author : Sir George Gilbert Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Architecture, Gothic
ISBN : NYPL:33433066282777

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Lectures on the Rise and Development of Medieval Architecture by Sir George Gilbert Scott Pdf