1st Edition

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe

Edited By John McNeill, Richard Plant Copyright 2021
344 Pages 39 Color & 350 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 39 Color & 350 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 39 Color & 350 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe considers the historiography and usefulness of regional categories and in so doing explores the strength, durability, mutability, and geographical scope of regional and transregional phenomena in the Romanesque period. This book addresses the complex question of the significance of regions in the creation of Romanesque, particularly in... Read more

The epistemological, political, and practical issues affecting regional categories in French Romanesque architecture

Claude Andrault-Schmitt

Hans Kubach’s treatment of regions in the study of Romanesque architecture

Eric Fernie

Did Zodiaque’s regional portrayal create a false impression as to the nature of Romanesque?

Philip Bovey

Romanesque sculpture in Aquitaine: a history of the marginalisation of a widely imitated regional sculptural style

Marcello Angheben

The baldachin-ciborium: the shifting meanings of a restricted liturgical furnishing in Romanesque art

Manuel Castiñeiras

Hildesheim as a nexus of metalwork production, c. 1130–1250

Gerhard Lutz

‘Mosan’ metalwork and its diffusion in the Rhineland, France, and England

Aleuna Macarenko

Winchester’s Holy Sepulchre Chapel and Byzantium: iconographic transregionalism?

Cecily Hennessy

Transregional dynamics, monastic networks: Santa Fede in Cavagnolo, Conques, and the geography of Romanesque art

Michele Luigi Vescovi

Tiron on the edge: cultural geography, regionalism and liminality

Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines with John Sheffer 

Four Romanesque Cistercian abbeys in Lesser Poland: the context of their foundation

Tomasz Węclawowicz

The Cathedral of Catania and the creation of the Norman County of Sicily: transregional and transalpine models in the architecture of the late 11th century

Tancredi Bella

‘School’ or 'masons’ workshop'?: reflections on the so-called Wormser Bauschule and on the definition of regional style

Wilfried E. Keil

Towards an anatomy of a regional workshop: the Herefordshire School revisited

John McNeill

Crossing the Pyrenees: migration, urbanization, and transregional collaboration in Romanesque Aragon

Julia Perratore

Transregionalism and particularity in the Romanesque woodcarving of 12th-Century Catalonia

Jordi Camps i Sòria

Romanesque woodcarvers and plasterers in the Abruzzi: the Mediterranean connection

Gaetano Curzi

A country without regions?: the case of Hungary

Béla Zsolt Szakács

Reassessing the problem of Scandinavian Romanesque

Benjamin Zweig

The creation of Castilian identity under Alfonso VIII and Leonor Plantagenet

Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo

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 was instrumental in establishing the BAA’s International Romanesque Conference Series and has a particular interest in the design of medieval monastic precincts.

Richard Plant has taught at a number of institutions and worked for many years at Christie’s Education in London, where he was deputy academic director. His research interests lie in the buildings of the Anglo-Norman realm and the Holy Roman Empire, in particular in architectural iconography. He is Publicity Officer for the British Archaeological Association, and in addition to this volume has co-edited Romanesque and the Past (2013), Romanesque Patrons and Processes (2018), and Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage (2020).