1st Edition

Romanesque and the Past Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe

Edited By John McNeill, Richard Plant Copyright 2014
306 Pages
by Routledge

306 Pages
by Routledge

The nineteen papers collected in this volume explore a notable phenomenon, that of retrospection in the art and architecture of Romanesque Europe. They arise from a conference organized by the British Archaeological Association in 2010, and reflect its interest in how and why the past manifested itself in the visual culture of the 11th and 12th centuries. This took many forms, from the casual... Read more

INTRODUCTION

 Veteres statuas emit Rome: Romanesque Attitudes to the Past

GERHARD LUTZ Memorising Bernward of Hildesheim in the 12th Century. A Contribution to High Medieval Imitatio

LUCY DONKIN Making an Impression: Consecration and the Creation of Architectural Memory

RICHARD GEM St Peter’s basilica in Rome c.1024-1159: A Model for Emulation?

KAI KAPPEL Architecture as a Visual Memento? La Roccelletta in Calabria

JILL FRANKLIN Iconic Architecture and the Medieval Reformation: Ambrose of Milan, Peter Damian, Stephen Harding and the Aisleless Cruciform Church

CLAUDE ANDRAULT-SCHMITT Archaism or Singularity: The Nave Clerestory in Romanesque Architecture between the Loire and Dordogne

NEIL STRATFORD Cluny and the Past

MANUEL CASTINEIRAS The Portal at Ripoll Revisited: An Honorary Arch for the Ancestors

ELIZABETH VALDEZ DEL ALAMO Tarragona: Lieu de mémoire

ROGER STALLEY On the Edge of the World: Hiberno-Romanesque and the Classical Tradition

BELA SZOLST SZAKACS The Reconstruction of Pannonhalma: Archaism in 13th-Century Hungary

DEBORAH KAHN Uses of the Past in English Romanesque Sculpture: Beyond the Antique

PETER FERGUSSON Three Romanesque Patrons and their Interest in History: Anselm of Bury, Ailred of Rievaulx, Wibert of Canterbury

STEPHAN ALBRECHT Artistic Strategies for Institutional Memory: Trier, Villenauxe, Glastonbury

BEATRICE KITZINGER From Hrabanus Maurus to Regensburg: Romanesque Praise for the Holy Cross

ANDREA WORM Visualising History: The Rise of Pictorial Concepts in Twelfth-Century Chronicles

CONRAD RUDOLPH Time, Place and the Construction of History in Early Twelfth-Century Paris

ERIC FERNIE The Concept of the Romanesque

Biography

John McNeill teaches at Oxford University’s Department of Continuing Education, and is Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, for whom he has edited and contributed to volumes on Anjou, King’s Lynn and the Fens, the medieval cloister, and English medieval chantries. He has a particular interest in Romanesque architectural sculpture and the design of medieval monastic precincts. Richard Plant is Director of the Arts of Europe programme at Christie’s Education in London. He is Honorary Publicity Office for the British Archaeological Association and has published on Romanesque architecture in England and the Holy Roman Empire. His previous editorial experience was for The Rough Guide to Jazz (1995).