1st Edition
Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque Building Traditions in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Europe
By Tadhg O’Keeffe
Copyright 2024
258 Pages
92 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
92 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
258 Pages
92 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as “Romanesque”.
Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque is a new and original study of medieval architectural culture in Ireland. The book’s central premise is that the... Read more
1 Europe and Ireland: inventing “Romanesque” 2 Tradition and innovation in the architecture of early medieval Ireland 3 Vaulting ambitions: the eleventh-century transformation of Irish architecture 4 Building the reformed Church in Ireland’s short twelfth century 5 Cormac’s Chapel and its place in Irish and European architectural history 6 Epilogue
Biography
Tadhg O’Keeffe is Full Professor of Archaeology in University College Dublin (Ireland), where he has taught since 1996. A specialist in medieval archaeology, he has lectured and published extensively on medieval buildings and on urban and rural settlements and landscapes.
