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Romanesque and the Past - Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe (Paperback, New)
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Romanesque and the Past - Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe (Paperback, New)
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The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable
phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of
Romanesque Europe. They arise from a conference organized by the
British Archaeological Association in 2010, and reflect its
interest in how and why the past manifested itself in the visual
culture of the 11th and 12th centuries. This took many forms, from
the casual re-use of ancient material to a specific desire to
re-present or emulate earlier objects and buildings. Central to it
is a concern for the revival of Roman and early medieval forms,
spolia, selective quotation, archaism and the construction of
histories. The individual essays presented here cover a wide range
of topics and media: the significance of consecration ceremonies in
the creation of architectural memory, the rise of pictorial
concepts in 12th-century chronicles, the creation of history in the
Paris of Hugh of St-Victor, and the appeal of the works of Bernward
of Hildesheim and of Hrabanus Maurus in the centuries after their
deaths. There are studies of buildings and the ideological purpose
behind them at Tarragona, Ripoll, Cluny, Pannonhalma (Hungary), La
Roccelletta (Calabria), and Old St Peter's, comparative studies of
Trier, Villenauxe and Glastonbury, and of Bury St Edmunds, Rievaulx
and Canterbury, and wide-ranging papers on the tantalizing evidence
for an engagement with an overseas past in Ireland, an Anglo-Saxon
past in England, and a Milanese past among the aisleless cruciform
churches of Augustinian Europe. The volume concludes with an
assessment of the very concept of Romanesque.
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