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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826192403321

Autore

O'Keeffe Tadhg

Titolo

Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque / / Tadhg O'Keeffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4725-3766-1

1-4725-3765-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

Duckworth Debates in Archaeology

Disciplina

913

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology)

Archaeology, Medieval

Architecture, Romanesque

Europe Historiography

Europe Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. A critical historiography of 'the story'; 2. Opening the Black Box; 3. Modelling regionalism: technology and society; 4. Discourse and translation: domains of meaning; 5. Archaeology and Romanesque; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the visual-artistic and architectural cultures of this period to their Classical antecedents, the term has survived two centuries of increasingly sophisticated readings of the relevant medieval buildings and objet d'art. The study of Romanesque as a stylistic phenomenon is now almost exclusively the preserve of art historians, particularly in the English-speaking world. Here 'the Romanesque' is subjec