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Early Medieval Architecture as Bearer of Meaning
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Gunter Bandmann
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Translated by:
Kendall Wallis
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Afterword by:
Hans Böker
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
This classic text—continually in print for more than half a century—analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire.
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 examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.
Author / Editor information
Gunter Bandmann was an eminent German historian who wrote on architecture and church history. Kendall Wallis is the humanities and social sciences librarian at McGill University. Hans Böker is professor of architectural history at McGill University.
Reviews
Thanks to Kendall Wallis's careful translation the English-speaking world now has the opportunity to rediscover ideas that have endured for more than half a century.
It makes a timely, welcome addition to essential library holdings in those areas... Highly recommended.
Paul Zucker:
Probably the most important contribution to understanding [the] history of architecture.... The content of the work is so comprehensive, the author's excursions into related fields shed light onto so many new and surprising relationships, that it is impossible even to enumerate the variety of the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical aspects of the book.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 6, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9780231501729
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
368
Illustrations:
80
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80 illus.
eBook ISBN:
9780231501729
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
