Archaeology and the pan-European romanesque / Tadhg O'Keeffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Keeffe, Tadhg.

Series:

Duckworth debates in archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology).

Architecture, Romanesque.

Europe--Antiquities.

Europe.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2007.

Summary:

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 objets 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 treated to a long overdue, theoretically-informed, archaeological inquiry. The ideological foundations and epistemological boundaries of Romanesque scholarship are critiqued, the constructs of 'Romanesque' and 'Europe' are deconstructed, and alternative strategies for interpreting Romanesque's constituent material are mapped out. This book should, at the very least, illuminate the need for debate.

Contents:

1 A critical historiography of 'the story' 13

2 Opening the Black Box 45

3 Modelling regionalism; technology and society 73

4 Discourse and translation: domains of meaning 97

5 Archaeology and Romanesque 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-123) and index.

ISBN:

0715634348

9780715634349

OCLC:

61302335