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Building the Churches of Kievan Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Building the Churches of Kievan Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This work is the first systematic study of how monumental buildings
were constructed in medieval Russia. It deals specifically with
ecclesiastical architecture, but also discusses such secular
architecture, palaces or towers. In scope the book covers the
territory of the Kievan state and the principalities that succeeded
it, from the 10th century to the 13th century. Pavel Aleksandrovich
Rappoport was the author of many of the standard works on the
architectural history of Russia, whether monumental, military or
domestic. He was also a leading archaeologist. In Building the
Churches of Kievan Russia his aim is to investigate how people went
about building them: from brickmaking and lime-firing to the
roofing and decoration, from how the churches were laid out to how
much brickwork was laid in a day. This book treats all these
processes as one integrated and interconnected procedure. The
detailed analysis enables Rappoport to identify the work of
particular teams of builders, even individual masters, and to
follow their progress from one site to another, and one town to a
second. Similarly, he documents how the Byzantine styles and
methods of church building, imported into Russia after its
conversion in 989, were gradually adapted to meet the needs of
local circumstances and climate. This study will be of direct
relevance to those concerned with the architecture and the Church
of pre-Mongol Russia, as well as its social history. The
investigation of the earliest churches, furthermore, represents the
sole extended discussion of Byzantine building practices. In terms
of methodology, the book will be of interest to all architectural
historians and archaeologists concerned with the Middle Ages, and
makes accessible in English material that has hitherto only been
available in Russian.
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