For well over a thousand years, scholars exploited the potential of architecture for allegorical representation. Regardless of whether they were describing the characteristics of romantic love, the framework of the medieval education syllabus, the community of the church, the virginal body or the contemplative vocation, writers turned repeatedly to the trope of the textual building. What was it about architecture that enabled it to fulfil such diverse functions over such a long timespan?
"Castles of the Mind" identifies and traces two primary traditions of symbolic textual architecture...
For well over a thousand years, scholars exploited the potential of architecture for allegorical representation. Regardless of whether they were de...
