Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque (Paperback)

Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries. Coined to express the indebtedness of the artistic culture of this period to the Classical past, it has been in continuous use for two centuries and has outlived other paradigms in the study of medieval culture. The study of Romanesque as a stylistic phenomenon is today almost exclusively the preserve of art historians, particularly in the English-speaking world. In this polemical book 'the Romanesque', especially as applied to architecture, is subjected to a long overdue, theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. The main aim is to liberate the buildings in question from the exclusive grip of unimaginative, uncritical, and ideologically-suspect, scholarship. The book's principal interpretative argument is that the pan-European corpus of buildings described as Romanesque is a product of the fragmentation of the heritage of romanitas in the 1000s and 1100s, rather than a product of its renaissance.

General

Imprint:	Bristol Classical Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Duckworth Debates in Archaeology
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	T O Keefe
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-7156-3434-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > European archaeology > Medieval European archaeology Promotions
LSN:	0-7156-3434-8
Barcode:	9780715634349

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