Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages
How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.
 
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Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages
How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.
 
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Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

by Paul Binski
Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages
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Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages

by Paul Binski

Overview

How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has largely gone undiscussed. In a radical new approach, Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages explores the relationship between medieval buildings and the complexity of experience they engendered. Paul Binski examines long-standing misconceptions about the way viewers responded to medieval architecture across Western Europe and in Byzantine and Arabic culture between late antiquity and the end of the medieval period. He emphasizes the importance of the experience itself within these built environments, essentially places of action, space, and structure but also, crucially, of sound and emotion.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520405561
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/29/2024
Series: Franklin D. Murphy Lectures
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 54 MB
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About the Author

Paul Binski is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 

Introduction 
Making “Sense” of Medieval Architecture 
Language, Experience, and Decorum 
Gothic Sublimity? 
Introducing the Argument 

1. Admiratio 
Metaphor and Aspect 
Columns and Import: Th e Backstory 
Great Churches and Rhetorical Occasions 
Eusebius: Jerusalem and Tyre 
Wonder 
Megalomania 

2. Tristitia-Laetitia 
The Road to Compostela and the Banishment of Grief 
Orphic Concord and the Gothic Organum 

3. Terror 
The Place of Fear 
Fruitful Fear 
The Thundering Ark: Organs, Bells 

4. Sublimia 
Suger, Jean de Jandun, Photius 
Gothic Angelization and Exhilaration 
Utterance 

5. Claritas, Jucunditas, Nobilitas 
Claritas 
Jucunditas 
Light, Color, and Countenance 
Nobilitas 

Conclusion: Spectacle, Genre, and Imitation 
Spectacle 
Implications and Challenges 
Genre 
Imitation 

Notes 
Bibliography 
List of Illustrations 
Index 
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