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First Published in 1981 The Architectural History of Canterbury
Cathedral traces the entire architectural history of the church
from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Every major epoch of
English architecture is represented, from the Norman Conquest to
the splendours of the Tudor age. One of the main concerns has been
a reconstruction of the two Norman phases - Lanfranc's cathedral
from 1070 and the great choir of St Anselm begun in 1096. Dr
Woodman puts forward new and provocative ideas about the
architecture of William of Sens and his original proposals for the
new Gothic choir and Trinity Chapel. The Perpendicular phases are
detailed for the first time, including an important reattribution
and redating of the splendid pulpitum. It analyses for the first
time the precise areas of building completed by individual master
masons, and he discusses details revealed by archaeological
excavations and restoration work that are no longer visible. This
stimulating study is a must read for scholars and researchers of
British architecture, architectural history and architecture in
general.
First Published in 1986 The Architectural History of King's College
Chapel provides a complete picture of how and why King's College
Chapel came to be built. Francis Woodman uses the evidence both of
structure and style and finance and patronage to present the
organisation and mechanics of the structural campaigns spread over
more than seventy years. He proposes a completely new sequence of
constructions from that hitherto accepted, together with clear
evidence of changes in policy concerning the intention to vault the
Chapel part-way through construction. The book also contains the
first complete analysis of the remarkable Tudor building accounts
and their significance for the study of mediaeval architectural
history. King's College Chapel is placed within the context of the
contemporary architecture in both England and France and, for the
first time, English late mediaeval architecture is considered and
presented as one part of a wider European movement. This book is a
must read for scholars and researchers of British architecture and
architectural history.
Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of
architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number
of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of
our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory,
and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. Yet
the ways in which these effects are brought about are not yet well
understood. The aim of this book is to move the discussion forward,
to encourage and broaden debate about the ways in which
architecture is interpreted, with aview to raising levels of
intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and
practice of architectural history. The range of material covered
extends from houses constructed from mammoth bones around 15,000
years ago in the present-day Ukraine to a surfer's memorial in
Carpinteria, California; other subjects include the young
Michelangelo seeking to transcend genre boundaries; medieval
masons' tombs; and the mythographies of early modern Netherlandish
towns. Taking as their point of departure the ways in which
architecture has been, is, and can be written about and otherwise
represented, the editors' substantial Introduction provides an
historiographical framework for, and draws out the themes and ideas
presented in, the individual contributors' essays. Contributors:
Christine Stevenson, T. A. Heslop, John Mitchell, Malcolm Thurlby,
Richard Fawcett, Jill A. Franklin, StephenHeywood, Roger Stalley,
Veronica Sekules, John Onians, Frank Woodman, Paul Crossley, David
Hemsoll, Kerry Downes, Richard Plant, Jenifer Ni Ghradraigh, Lindy
Grant, Elisabeth de Bievre, Stefan Muthesius, Robert Hillenbrand,
AndrewM. Shanken, Peter Guillery.
Third in the Scripta Mongolica series, this book reproduces a rare
printed text of the Bolor Erike or Chaplet of Crystals, written in
the 18th century but preserving a number of recitals, some unknown
elsewhere, relating to Chinggis Qaghan and his line and to the
history of the Mongols under the Chinese Ming dynasty. The dean of
the world's Mongolists provides a thorough textual and historical
analysis.
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