Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Medieval

The Art of Medieval Urbanism examines the role of monumental sculpture and architecture in the medieval cityscape, offering a pathbreaking interpretation of the relationships among art, architecture, and the history of urbanism. In the first study of its kind, Robert Maxwell shifts attention away from the great Gothic cities of the later Middle Ages to focus on the urban context of art making in the earlier Romanesque era.

Maxwell concentrates on Parthenay, a flourishing town in eleventh- and twelfth-century Aquitaine. Exploring Parthenay's exceptionally well-preserved...

This book marks the first English translation of...

A fully illustrated, comprehensive record of London's medieval Charterhouse, from its foundation in the 14th century to the present day, presented by the Survey of London team. It includes original research, new photography, and previously unpublished inventories.

As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of monasticism: chapter...

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedral--one of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europe--is little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-depth analysis of the cathedral's art and architecture.

Focusing on the early thirteenth to the late fourteenth centuries, he examines over two hundred years of change and consolidation, tracing the growth of the cathedral in the city as well as the evolution of sacred places within...

Der Garten des Fursten Orsini hat alles: Abenteuer, Geheimnisse, Monster, Fabelwesen, wunderschone Gottinnen, halb oder ganz nackt, an zauberhaften und unheimlichen Orten. Ein erlesen verfuhrerisches Sammelsurium aus antiker Weisheit und verbotenen zeitgenossischen Quellen. Seinerzeit war der Garten, der nur sich selbst und nichts anderem gleicht," als Aufstand gegen das Establishment beruchtigt, und noch heute sind Vicinos geistvolle Zoten dazu angetan, den Einzelnen zur Besinnung zu bringen und von der Tyrannei der Political Correctness zu befreien.

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Arthur S. Turberville details the Vatican's doctrine underlying the violent Roman Inquisition, which was used to suppress all opponents to the Roman Catholic Church's well-established religion. This book is not a detailed history of the Inquisition, but rather an excellent survey of literature on the Church's doctrines on this practice.